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Leicestershire Library Services - Market Harborough Library
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Dick Fulford (ex R.N.)
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The Arctic
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Royal Navy
Article ID:听
A4175039
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10 June 2005

[This story was submitted to the People鈥檚 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 -

鈥nd 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鈥檚 radio system relaying music; our very own Bing Crosby was singing the 1942 'top of the pops'-鈥淚鈥檓 Dreaming of a White Christmas鈥!!

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