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Her memoir, Maid Matelot, was published in I awoke from a dreamless sleep to find that someone was squeezing a spongeful of ice-cold water over my face. I had not bothered to undress that night, so it took no more than a couple of minutes to pull on my sea-boots and duffel coat, brush my hair and ram a cap down on top of it. Ten minutes later we were lined up in front of Horace Sherwood, listening to what he had in store for us.

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Although the wind was no longer blowing gale force there was plenty of it, and we were soaked to the skin before we had gone very far. Presently the sun came out and Frank, the coxswain, let Winkle [Joan Preece] and I and some of the others steer the tugs in turn. All around us the great armada was on the move. There were all the ships we knew so well; the Force Pluto ships from Abatos, the infantry landing-craft from Tormentor, all the hundreds of tank landing-craft from Southampton; K Squadron, N Squadron, the Mark Vs and D.

Then there were the armed merchant cruisers, destroyers, minesweepers, corvettes, trawlers and ocean tugs, every one of them moving southwards towards Normandy and a fate unknown.

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At last the great day had come; the tension was broken and the soldiers and sailors laughed and cheered as our little tug kept pace with them, clouds of rainbow-tinted spray breaking over her stubborn black bows. Once the first thrilling news of the invasion had been received and absorbed by all of us in Southampton, a period of waiting ensued which was enshrouded in a grey blanket of depression.

Up and down Southampton Water the mooring-buoys bowed and curtsied to the flood and ebb, the only physical objects in sight on that long monotonous stretch of water. All the ships that used to swing to those buoys, all our favourite ships and the ones we did not care for so well and our tea, chocolate and rum ships had gone; and no one knew if or when they would ever return.

We scrubbed and polished our boat until it shone like an oriental sunrise; I drained the oil out of the sump and filled it with fresh oil, cleaned the plugs and carburettor and did a few other maintenance jobs on the engine.