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Back in the early 90's, a friend of mine ran a jewelry store, and one of his customers was a gent who's ship was sunk in PQ-17. He was in a lifeboat for 14 days before being picked up. He sailed on a few more convoys, and once again had to take to the lifeboats. This guy had moved to Florida because he could not stand any temp below about 55, and when it did, he just stayed inside until it was warm enough to go outside again. He gave me a copy of a book which detailed the loss of his first ship, and it was lost along with everything else a few years back.
Tom was a collector of silver, and probably had about two metric tons of it when he passed. He had some great sea stories, even outside of his convoy runs. As I had been in the US Navy in the '60's, and had gone to Vietnam the long way round, we were able to share a lot. Great guy, and sure miss sitting and drinking coffee in the jewelry store with him.
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