Double Pay and Greater Security

But I found the first ship I was on it took pretty well ten days to two weeks to load and unload. So I signed off there and joined a tanker in England from then on, because it was more money, double pay, so I got more pay from danger money on tankers. And I joined the Melina down in Portsmith, said hello to Venezuela, load it with oil and then come back to England. And then I went to Aruba with another tanker and sailed overseas again. So it was just continuation, but tankers was always protected in the convoy cause they were very important to the war effort. So it would take about ten days to two weeks to go across the ocean, but every time there was a submarine scare up in the north, the North Atlantic, we’d go five hundred miles south to get rid of them and then come 500 miles back again. So it wasn’t just a straight line going across with the convoy. You had to deviate your course and follow where the submarines was supposed to be so that was exciting.