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Originally Posted by iambecomelife
Nice shots Jimbuna; lifeboats & rafts are kind of eerie. Just found out that my boss's dad was on a merchant that was torpedoed by a U-Boat and found himself having to abandon ship. He was lucky; she told me not all his shipmates made it.
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Yeah, my old man told me similar stories many years back.
He was in the merchant navy at the ripe old age of 14/15 having lied about his age. Seeing the Spanish Civil War as a rehearsal for the much bigger one to come in 39.
Luckily, he was never on one of the ships that were sunk during the war.