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- Text: ...with M16s in case of a polar bear attack. (52:00) After a quick patch was made on the ship, the vessel went to a shipyard in Scotland for repairs. (52:42) The improvised repair to the ship had been done so well, that the men in the ship yard in Scotland said they could not have don...
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- Text: ...gar and now a museum ship -Took a tour of the ship -Took a three-day tour of London -Saw Piccadilly Circus, Nelson Monument, Scotland Yard, Buckingham Palace, St. James Park -Fascinating to finally see the places he’d read about in history and literature -Rode on London’s subway syste...
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- Text: ...he Grand Banks -Had a picket station called GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, United Kingdom) above the Arctic Circle -Worked out of Scotland -On that station for 30 to 45 days at a time -Visited Germany, Denmark, and Sweden -Treated well by the people in those countries -First American ship that t...
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- Text: It’s very expensive to own a car over there, so they make them last. He really wanted to spend some time touring Ireland and Scotland, but he didn’t have the time. When he was in Portland, he used to ride up with some of the men driving the WWII transports.
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- Text: ...nt to New York City which was, never been there before, that was an experience, and from New York City we went to Edinburgh, Scotland. As a- a, with my Scots background, that was an exciting experience and I remember walking around Edinburgh and- and getting acquainted with the tartans and ...