Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1918 — On the Channel Patrol. [ARTICLE]

On the Channel Patrol.

“The weather round about here has been too damnable for words lately, and life on a patrol boat has been no cinch. Came down harbor yesterday in a regular blizzard —could barely see fifty yards ahead at times, about three inches of snow all over the ship—freezing like the devil. There’s an infernal no’westernly wind blowing, and this packet rolls about like a sick-head-ache. It’s no joke monkeying about in a tiny craft of this size, hunting, ‘tin fishes.’ In daylight it’s bad enough, but at night it’s extremely dangerous, as one can’t see the seas and one’s liable to half swamp one’s self In turning. And as far as any comfort below goes, there isn't any. Everything is dampand cold, and the steward loses the greater part of your food in bringing it to you, and what you finally receive is a cold unpalatable mess. Yet by Heaven! it’s something to be out here having a chance to bag a bally German swine.” —Atlantic Magazine.