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Description
Mr. Bevan describes embarking for the journey overseas, and a close call during a storm.
Transcription
One night we had a hell of a storm. There was, when we had it worse was, there was, two freighters, there's a big convoy left ahead of us, and these two freighters for some unknown reason were left back and they joined ours and we had two small destroyers, four destroyers. So we had to speed, travel the speed of the freighter, which is slow. And this one night there's a terrible storm, this freighter's cargo shifted and he started heading right to us and just about the time, past your turn to wave hit, we came within one degree of turning over according to the, the... The Navy was all scared, we thought it was funny.
Interviewer: You must have been afraid.
We weren't, no, we didn't know any difference anyway. They were the, talking to some of the guys that, old guy that was in the thing, that had been on the North Atlantic for thirty years and he said "It was the worst storm". ‘Course they're always the worst storm.