- Contributed by
- Leicestershire Library Services - Market Harborough Library
- People in story:
- Dick Fulford (ex R.N.)
- Location of story:
- The Arctic
- Background to story:
- Royal Navy
- Article ID:
- A4175039
- Contributed on:
- 10 June 2005
[This story was submitted to the People’s War site by Margaret Collinge of Leicestershire Library Services on behalf of Mr D Fulford, and has been added to the site with his permission. The author fully understands the site's terms and conditions.]
Worse things happen at sea -
…and they did in 1942, at Christmas time.
The weather at sea was appalling. The Artic winter produced a Force 10 gale, when my ship, HMS Anson, sailed from Akureyri in Northern Iceland on Christmas Eve covering yet another convoy to Russia.
Snow storms and mountainous seas made us forget other wartime hazards such as U-boats and things like the Scharnhorst!
On Christmas Day, when we were sailing somewhere off Spitzbergen, my very vivid memory was of the ship’s radio system relaying music; our very own Bing Crosby was singing the 1942 'top of the pops'-“I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”!!
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