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Location
At Sea
Age
16 Years

13th April 1940

We split up the long 6 hour watch today, because, although we, in the wireless room always go by GMT the ship has to alter her Clock roughly an hour everyday. We are now well out into the Atlantic, and according to our position we are somewhere near the Azores. it is strange how much longer one has to sleep in the daytime to make up for the few hours lost at night. Still I’m getting used to it already, so the by the time I’m coming back, I ought to be able to do without any sleep at all. It is quite thrilling going on deck in the middle of the night, when there is no moon or stars. You just have to guess we are going. Another thing which seems peculiar to me, is the way the officers always talk about the news which, to me, is several months’ old. The 1st engineer has spoken of nothing but the Graf Spee action, for the last three days.

Food is still excellent, although the menu card always has some weird name for quite an ordinary dish.