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dry dock, Liverpool, England, the other one when -we were at Queenstown, Ireland. Tell Mack I’ve been all over like we do. Our base is-at Queenstown Ireland. Tell Mack I've bee all over Ireland and I don’t like it a bit.I can now write more than I used to because I have more time .«ince the war's over, we stay in port about all the time. We used to go to sea for seven or eight days and stay in port two days. We then would go out and meet •'thirty or forty ships and convoy them into some port, of course there would be several destroyers. There is about 150 in Queenstown and Brest together, so it used to keep us pretty busy. Our ship is a fast one, i she cun make, 35x knots, that is about I forty miles an hour so you know that | is going pretty fast through water.I We have hud a lot of S. O/S. calls and I you know that, means that a ship has | been torpedoed, so as soon ns we get ' l one of them, it doesn’t make any difference what time'of night it is, and allots of times they have taken us out • of our bunks to get the ship ready for | sea to pick up survivors. I expect you jhave read all about it but believe me,I mother, it is an awful sigh ; to see a h | bunch of people drowning. We have •_|been tired at a lot of times but nonetti | of then ever hit us. But we have sunk y! lois of subs. I don’t know just how I j many but we have done our share.I j We rammed another ship and sunk her r | Easter Day. We came over here aII year ago and I guess I’ll not get to t i come back until May. I ha ve been all e| over Ireland. England, Scotland andi Wales. I like England the best._ J I get nine pounds a month and 1 Q make about six pounds barbering. I c will make more than that n wv because t we are in port most of the time. Altogether that is about eight y dollars u monthsWell mother this is about all I can write this time. Tell all the kids hello and tell little Henry I will be f home before long and the sooner the s better. With lots of love. e From your son,y LESLIE WILLIAMS.
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Danville Gazette
Danville, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 26, 1918
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Jean M.
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