Sharp diary 1917 page 65. Monday 26 February 1917 - RMS Baltic
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Monday 26th of February 1917
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Had a lot of asthma last night, mainly because port hole closed so as not to show a light. Nothing happened! We are taking the North Passage and are skirting the northern coast of Ireland. Very calm, the Carmania escorting us. Later in the day we hugged the Irish coast which is very beautiful, passing quite close to the Giant’s Causeway. About 6 large vessels were going more or less with us all the way. The nervous strain came rather trying to me at the end of the day. But the sea began to get up which put Maud hors de combat making however the danger from submarines a good deal less. By tomorrow we ought to have passed through the danger zone.
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