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We were held over in the port for a day and then a telephone warned us to get busy.  So we taxied and located our precious baggage (that we dare not lose sight of, and that has cost a small fortune in safeguarding and transportation) and got onto the boat. There we found a number of English officers and many English soldiers occupying what room the "Archimedes" offered.  A few U. S. troops were on hand and Schuur and I were the only two American officers.  We got some of our "doughboys" to stow our baggage for us: it was placed in the rain on top of a hatch.  We looked about for quarters and found -- none.  So we bribed the bos'un and got two not-too-clean-but-still-a-place-to-lay-me-down-bunks at the usual sky price.  So we were settled.

We were conveyed of course -- two little black hulls that betokened the torpedo but destroyer joined us and kept us admirable company.

Down to the neck, past the Isle of Wight