Feature Letter of August 20th, 2025
McLean, David
Dear Lettie
Just a few lines to let you know we arrived safe and well. This is Sunday afternoon and we have been very busy all day. I am in the officers' mess steady now. Well we arrived in Liverpool about midnight Friday night but we did not get off the boat till between 9 and 10 Saturday morning. We had a fine voyage across. We came around by the north of Ireland and it was lovely scenery around the coast of Ireland and the water was as smooth as glass and there was a destroyer with our ship. It met us when we came in the danger zone. It would put you in mind of a dog running here and there all the time. There was one for each ship and one for the cruiser as well but we did not see any subs. I got thirty shillings for working on the boat so that helps some. Well we got on the train between 10 and 11 o'clock Saturday morning. There was seven of us in a compartment and we have a fine time. They just looked like toy trains. They were so small. The first big stop we had was Birmingham. We could get out of the train to walk around and we got a fine reception all along and we did not arrive here till 9 o'clock last night and we have two and a half miles to walk from the station and it was pretty late when we got to sleep.
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