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  Hugh
I was on Uganda at the same time in the gulf of Lion heading for 
Marseilles the weather was not nice and no passengers were to be seen 
except for three in the dining room who were too sick to make it to 
their cabins, the anchor had come adrift down around /Stromboli/ and 
tried to make holes in the bow and of course the anchor winch didn't 
want to work to haul it in again that is until I pointed out that they 
were pushing the wrong button after nearly drowning several times 
getting up to the forecastle, believe there were over a hundred ships in 
trouble around the UK coast at the time, it was Jan 60 when I went back 
on the Carthage and the sea was still running as I mentioned
frank

On 9/11/2010 12:06 AM, HUGH wrote:
> Frank,
> In an earlier message on the subject, I mentioned going the wrong way 
> in Force 10+.  This was about where your experience on Carthage took 
> place.  We had entered the Med, heading for North Africa - Algiers, 
> Bone or Melilla, can't recall - in ballast, for iron ore.  This was 
> December 1959, but before Christmas. It soon became apparent we were 
> heading the wrong way, with wind and sea behind us, North Africa 
> approaching at 10 or 12 knots plus the wee help from the weather.  My 
> recollection is that it took about 36 hours to get her round into the 
> wind, each time just failing due to lack of power.  The three free gas 
> and pissifiers (GTV Morar) were apt to be reluctant to respond at 
> times, and sitting with the waves abeam wasn't the old man's idea of 
> joy.  It wasn't mine, either.  But, as I said, a misplaced carpet and 
> a misplaced plank were all the casualties I knew of.  We may have 
> sailed back out of the Med to try again - I don't recall.
> Hugh.
>
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