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''Up until that point we had been in touch with NEAP command. They was advising us about the comings and goings of the U-boats from their base near Sonderstrom. Then when NEAP told us a Jerry was running some sixty to seventy minutes off our stern, I curled the old girl into Lancaster Sound. I figured to lay her in the inlet, hard by Carber shallows at Choker Point.'' |
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"Let the record show that Captain Cartwright is referring to the arctic supply barge, HMS Percifield. Go ahead, Captain." |
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"I was a fightin' her all the way, waves comin' across the bow was a runnin' twenty-two and sometimes nearer thirty foot. Winds was in excess of thirty-seven knotsrecorded one peak gust right on fifty. When I got her in the shallows she settled down, but in the shallows we picked up the rains, beastly things, sheets of rain and needles of ice. I ordered the men to lace her up and shut her down." |
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"Can you fix the time for us, Captain?" |
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"Aye. The ship's log shows we dropped anchor at 0741 hours on the morning of the twentieth. That would be June, sir, this year." |
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"I was takin' my breakfast in my cabin on the morning of the twenty-seventh, when the First Matethat being Hiram Bellows, sir, the one what testified before mecomes to tell me that the storms was |
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