Question:
What was the period of the trials?
The period of the trails I think that was about eight
days altogether...
Question:
That long?
...from when we left. We stopped at
Greenock to take on a lot of the other people that was coming
'round to Southampton. They wasn't actually
crew but they was the workers that was going to be doing the
fitting out and many of those we found out in later years they
stopped in Southampton because, you know, there was work down
there. And one
of the things that I particularly remember about … leaving the Clyde was
to see people crying because they… they lost their jobs, you know,
and it was a terrible...to think that all those people that
was...been working on it all those years, well two, three years,
suddenly they was out of work and there was nothing for
them.
