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We republish this 2009 Sunday Times article, in light of the tragic submarine incident that claimed three lives, including Lt-Commander Gillian Elizabeth Hector
we didn t have information as we would have liked it, but we had a certain amount of information that came in and told us what was going on. john had been in bed, lying in a place near the bridge. he was woken up by a terrific crash, which actually he didn t know what it meant, he got out of bed and rushed up to the bridge again, only to find that his ship, hms oribi, had rammed a u boat. and they had actually, were now sort of riding on the side of the ship. it was the most extraordinary state to be in. of course it was terrible anxiety, and all my friends tried to persuade me to go back and not to pay attention, but i couldn t possibly leave the scene. it was a matter of complete life or death to me, and i stayed there waiting for information, hoping for information, and just waiting, hopefully and luckily eventually we had more
information to say that they had actually managed to sink this u boat, and were on their way back. they were able to crawl back to canada this time, they were the other side of the atlantic, and so they managed to get back at about 12 knots, which is a safe speed they could go at. when eventually he arrived in canada, he was able to ring me up and say he had arrived safely. well, it was amazing of course, and you know, we just both felt, well, there s nothing you could say just thank goodness, thank goodness, thank goodness. you know, that s all you could do. you couldn t look far into the future, you might only have had a fortnight s leave and he may be killed at the end of it. you had no idea what was going to happen, so you just put up with it, and if something was there, the present, it was there, you did it. whatever.