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Keep to the inside passages [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] which [[/insertion]] means going up and down ladders (stairways to you) from one compartment to another from main deck to one just below where our (McDonald’s and my room is.  There are watertight doors to go through but nothing like those on our deck, those you have to step thru only about 4 ft high and what? 2 feet? wide. To deck below ours there are 3 to 4 foot square hatches securely bolted down, with [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] a circular hatch perhaps two feet in diameter through which the men having business lower down in the ship "slip" /// The roll is considerable Jack & I had a coffee in Captain’s cabin with Commander Lewis after looking over charts and channels leading around Anvers I. Capt. is up in bridge deck where you certainly get full effect of rolling. Had to hold coffee cups off the table. /// In the wardroom where we eat they put a rubber mat like expanded metal lath on the table; nothing then slipped but for our chairs there were cloth belts that fastened to metal loops along edge (below top) of table.