Quote, "We were a week working up as far as Yarmouth Roads, and then we got into a gale--the famous October gale of twenty-two years ago.It was wind, lightning, sleet, snow, and a terrific sea.

We were flying light, and you may imagine how bad it was when I tell you we had smashed bulwarks and a flooded deck.On the second night she shifted her ballast into the lee bow, and by that time we had been blown off somewhere on the Dogger Bank."