Item 06: T. Darchy war narrative, 16 June 1917-20 August 1918 - Page 19
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to the end of the Breakwater & would flag signals. She can cooey some
Tuesday 17
Some of the chaps thought they had reached the end of things last night by far the roughest we have experienced One life boat that is about 30 ft pr above the water line at ordinary times got broken A lot of water got into our deck over a foot deep at one end of it & as quite a number sleep on the floor they had a bad time. Things were very mixed this morning with bedding hits etc floating about in the dirty water. I was luckie enough to get nothing wet to speak of.
Only one man left behind at Durban closing the Hotels probably saved some of the others
Wednesday 18th
We are running fairly close to the shore coast. It is straight & rather uninteresting Mountains a short distance