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Originally Posted by Oberon
You served on a corvette Dustyboats? That must have made for some pretty memorable Atlantic storms 
The Cruel Sea is a VERY well written novel, I strongly urge anyone who hasn't read it to read it, it's up there with Das Boot and no mistake. |
I cannot claim to have faced Atlantic Storms on H.M.S.'s Magpie and Sparrow. We were based on Simonstown in South Africa. We did meet some "Roughers" from time to time and they would pitch and roll on a duck pond the way they were built.....Dusty