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Louise Liers correspondence album, 1911-1919
1918-12-03 Page 3
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and often talks to the passengers. We had a very pleasant time, had daily boat drills, calesthenics, concerts, tea parties etc. We passed icebergs and whales and many schools of porpoises and dolphins which followed us for hours. Of course the fact that we had to wear our life preservers continually even at meals and that we all had to be below at 7:30 with no lights and port holes closed reminded us that we were at war, even if the troops had not been present. The general of the division with which we sailed was on our boat with his staff and we became very much attached to them. The last day of our voyage when we were in the Irish Sea we were befogged and lay there all day just where the Lusitania went down. When the fog lifted in the evening a boat of the entire convoy was within sight but gradually they re-
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and often talks to the passengers. We had a very pleasant time, had daily boat drills, calesthenics, concerts, tea parties etc. We passed icebergs and whales and many schools of porpoises and dolphins which followed us for hours. Of course the fact that we had to wear our life preservers continually even at meals and that we all had to be below at 7:30 with no lights and port holes closed reminded us that we were at war, even if the troops had not been present. The general of the division with which we sailed was on our boat with his staff and we became very much attached to them. The last day of our voyage when we were in the Irish Sea we were befogged and lay there all day just where the Lusitania went down. When the fog lifted in the evening a boat of the entire convoy was within sight but gradually they re-
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