re: #658 calcajun

Oops— My Dad sill won’t talk about some of the stuff he saw. Suffice it to say— there were a lot way to die in such a confined space as a DE.

I believe it. Relatively small boats, real skinny and not much draft. What that means in layman’s terms is that in any kind of bad weather, they are pukers. In heavy weather, you can get thrown sideways into a bulkhead and crush your skull. Tin cans, indeed.