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Originally Posted by
tiriaq
Hot chow and a warm dry bunk... Not if you joined the
Canadian
navy and served on a corvette doing convoy runs in the North Atlantic. Often too rough for the cook to prepare real meals, and the mess decks were awash. "Red lead" was common - canned stewed tomatoes. A hammock, not a berth.
The hammock was actually better for rough seas than a bunk. In rough weather, destroyer escort crew found themselves trying to wedge themselves in their bunks, often failing, and often wearing a set of bruises to prove it. Surfaced submarines suffered the same indignities. This happened in both oceans.
See Little Ship, Big War by Commander Edward P. Stafford.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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11-27-2024 05:19 PM
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