Post by KG on Jun 16, 2014 21:07:23 GMT
THE LAUNCHING OF JULIAN:
My name is Julian Earl, - Joe to my friends.
I was born on 16th June 1941, the Battle of the Sea was being fought. Even now over half a century later, it is frightening to think what might have become of us without the unarmed sailors who brought succour to an island under siege. They would voyage anywhere - into the mouth of hell, if asked; they would carry any cargo, sitting atop holds stuffed with armaments, munitions and oil; they would suffer any conditions and there were hardly any conditions on earth worse than the bone-numbing cold and the voracious seas of the Arctic; and if they survived disaster they would go back, again and again, for more.