Ships Looking Like Icebergs

When the ice stopped they had to get at that ice because it could outweigh one side over the other and the indicator on the funnel would tell you when you’re at a serious stage. The way they took it off was with steam hoses and with hatchets. And if it got to real bad then what you had to do is turn around and let the rest of the ship, the other side of the ship ice up, but you couldn’t do that if you were in convoy, but we never had that much icing time trouble out on the North Atlantic. The worse I saw was in the mouth of the St. Lawrence. It almost made you look like you were looking at an iceberg rather than a ship and I know because we used to see the icebergs quite often and every now and then if we didn’t have much to do and we weren’t in a convoy, we’d use an iceberg for target practice. The thing about icebergs a lot of people don’t realize 2/3 of the iceberg is under the water. When you see how big it is on the water you can realize how much bigger it is under the water. Some of them are just like a house or an apartment block. Some are huge.