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Which was leaving just north of belfast. we were absolutely vital because at the moment we were unable to feed ourselves, we had the most terrible rationing. i mean, rationing — it wasn't bad for wrens because we have the naval stores, but for ordinary people, they would have one egg a fortnight. i mean, can you imagine anything more awful? so meat and everything was very, very difficult to get. the first bit of the atlantic was, we were able to give them air coverfrom our side, and then there was a huge gap before more air cover could be given from the canadian side. so as we approached the...

In a plot on the wall. one day, i was watching the ships come in from our castle office, and i saw a ship, a destroyer coming in, hms oribi she was called, and she was involved in various battles in the atlantic and needed some repairs, so she had her repairs done in belfast. so the first opportunity, the first thing the wrens did on their arrival was to send a message to the ward room, asking us down to have a drink on board. they had their priorities obviously right. so half a dozen of us went down to have a drink on board and there i metjohn lamb, my future husband, and in ten days we decid...

The river, and we could see ships coming in and out. and sometimes they sent ships who had been in the atlantic to be repaired in the dockyard. meanwhile, we ran the plot up in belfast and had the whole west coast and particularly the whole atlantic in a plot on the wall. one day, i was watching the ships coming from the castle office, and i saw a ship and it was a destroyer coming in, of hms holiday, she was called, and she was involved in various battles in the atlantic and needed some repairs, so she had her repairs done in belfast. the first opportunity, the first thing the wrens did on th...

A drink. they had their priorities obviously right. so half a dozen of us went down to have a drink on board and there i metjohn, my future husband, and in ten days we decided to get married. the next morning they sailed off to join this convoy which was leaving just north of belfast. we were absolutely vital because at the moment we were unable to feed ourselves, we had the most terrible rationing. rationing wasn't bad for wrens because we have the naval stores, but for ordinary people, they would have one egg a fortnight. i mean, can you imagine anything more awful? meet and everything was v...

—— nose. you had to work fast, and then you called to the number one, "on target", and she would read out the figures. so i was doing height, the other girl was doing range. she was calling out figures, that went to the guns in big pipes. so remember, we are walking over them pipes, so remember, we are walking overthem pipes, not so remember, we are walking over them pipes, not trading on them, walking over them. sometimes almost falling over. that was ourjob. so, i applied to drawing the wrens in march 19aa. —— goyne. and when i told them that i was