| ferretchucker |
06-07-2008 01:36 AM |
One of my Nan's friends was having coffee with us when I had gone to town with my Nan. Anyway, somehow, the conversation got onto the subject of the titannic. Then, my Nan's friend, Pat, mentioned that her dad was on the sister boat to the titannic, the HMHS Britannic.
After it had hit a mine and was sinking, while they were in the water, Pat's Dad saw somebody getting sucked into a propellor. He saved the man, but in doing so lost his arm up the the elbow.
She said that he did have a prosthetic arm but never wore it, unless trying to amuse the children by lifting it up and letting it fall shouting timber.
Quite an interesting bit of the story, is that Pat went onto a website about the Britannic and sent in her sotry. It was put on the website. Within about a month, she got an e-mail from the man incharge of the website with an e-mail he had been sent from the nurse that had cared for her dad in the hospital. As I understand it, Pat and the nurse sent a few e-mails to each other and are now quite good (internet) friends.
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