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Mike G

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Great fun in a wooden boat, 7' draft, in the N
Atlantic in the Winter.

I was a Bosuns mate on a gator freighter and, while crossing the
Atlantic to relive the Med. squadron in the fall/winter of 66 we had
several mine sweepers attached to the squadron.

About half way across we ran through a storm big enough to be taking
green water over the bow.

As I remember it, for most of the time, we couldn't see the sweepers
because they were spending most of their time playing submarine.

We had to leave them in the care of an LST while the rest of the
squadron ran ahead, we couldn't go slow enough and maintain steerage way
to stay with them.

A week after we got into Naples the LST showed up without the sweepers.
They showed up a couple of days later. As I understand it the Captain of
the LST was in deep doo doo for leaving the sweepers.

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