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From: Jerome Buza <>
Subject: Re: [DVHH] On the ship
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:22:56 -0700
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Rose Mary and listers,
When we sailed to Germany as a military family, we were on a Navy troup
ship and sailed out of Brooklyn, NY. We were assigned meal times, as
well as bottle times for our baby, had a cabin with bunk beds and had to
have our room inspected every day. Proved to be a problem if the 2
month old was asleep as we had to vacate the cabin. I only felt seasick
one day when the Atlantic was rough. We landed in Bremerhaven in late
afternoon and had to board a train to Heidelberg. I wanted to see
Germany and we drove through all this towns late at night. The enlisted
people, like us, got a 7 AM breakfast time and the officer's got a later
time and were up higher in the ship. At least I got to travel with my
husband as we had a 18 month old and a 2 month old.

Margaret
Rose Mary K Hughes wrote:
> Hello Alex,
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> When I joined my husband (he was in the army) in France in 1955, I went by
> cabin class (cabin and meals) on the Queen Mary. There was also economy
> class (cabins and meals but lower in the boat and less fancy general areas)
> and there was first class with larger cabins, better meals, and very fancy
> general areas.
>
> Rose Mary
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> From: "ajleeb" <>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:10 AM
> To: "Anne Dreer" <>
> Cc: <>
> Subject: Re: [DVHH] On the ship
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>> For those of you who traveled on the ship and had cabins and meals,
>> was that considered as 2nd; 3rd or economy class accommodation?
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>> Alex.
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>> On 31-Aug-09, at 9:58 PM, Anne Dreer wrote:
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>>> When we boarded the SS. Columbia My 3 brothers were assigned to a
>>> men's cabin. My mother and I got to share a cabin, (they all had
>>> bunk beds) with another teenaged girl and an 80 year old Polish
>>> lady. The old lady's son had brought her aboard. Being practical my
>>> mother suggested that the girl and I share the upper two bunks and
>>> she and the old lady would take the lower ones. The woman's son
>>> insisted his mother had to have the upper bunk. In broken German the
>>> man said, 'Oma springen wie junge Mädchen'. (Grandma will jump up
>>> like a young girl)
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>>> The poor woman got very seasick and tried to cure her discomfort by
>>> eating lots of garlic, which she had brought . Our cabin did not
>>> have a porthole or window and that garlic really reeked. She got so
>>> sick and weak that she had to be taken to the ship's hospital.
>>> We only got sick the first night when we got out into the open
>>> water. After that we took seasick pills and enjoyed ourselves
>>> playing cards, chess and shuffleboard.
>>>
>>> Anne D.
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