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KONINKLIJK INSTITUUT |
K I M[Ben Oostdam's |
March 2, 1952: 14:00 passed Ras Alula 16:00 Cape Guardafui -this is near the Horn of Africa, near Socotra Island and Djibouti; to our surprise, it got pretty cold around midnight on watch; we missed our gloves which had been crated with winter clothing of all 42 of us to be shipped back to Holland. |
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March 4, 1952: My first sight of flying fish in schools
(or squadrons?) also surprising rainbows in the spray of our bow-wave. Bosun H. Verblauw asked me to paint his name on his bosun's chest (no pun, in Dutch Navy lingo that's the ocean) . Had a terrible watch in the hot engine-room, the more so since I suffered from sunburn. But the ocean is beautiful, smooth as a mirror! |
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BLO fecit 22 X 1998 |
![]() | 1952 Training Cruise on the "van Kinsbergen" to New Guinea, part 6: Indian Ocean Sri Lanka to Singapore |