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Location
TBA
Age
18 Years

21st January 1942

Since my last entry we have received 15 ordinary SOS’s! By that I meant that 15 ships have either sunk or been very seriously damaged thru’ bad weather.

Ever since leaving Halifax we have had no respite from the weather. We have had no fresh or salt water midships as t he lines burst after our first day out.

There have been several ships attacked by subs. In addition to the ordinary SOS’s, but most of them have been over the other side (we lost ours after port life-boat when we were half way across).

We had a raft mounted on iron framework and stanchions. A sea sheared the welding, and the raft crashed down on deck landing down a stout brass spindle which was surmounted by a cast iron handle (pump valve). This, however, disappeared. Only just under ½ the convoy is here now. Visibility has been very poor there! Almost constant blizzards and I am surprised that so many of us are left together.

Since we left home on this voyage, approx.. 23 ships have sent SOS’s. You don’t need subs! It seems that a convoy tried to go through the Minches in bad weather and consequently most of them piled up on the shore. Yesterday, we rec’d 5 or 6, the day before 6 or 7 .

(Two of the ships in our convoy were in collision on the way across. One of them sank).