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108. I was in a hurricane at sea

It was on the RMS Queen Mary sailing back to New York from Europe in the summer of 1966. A hurricane strayed far north that year and we sailed right into the heart of it off the east coast of the U.S. The sky was really ugly in the hours before we entered it, all black and orange. The Queen Mary was an enormous ship but it was tossed back and forth like a rowboat. You could hear the loud roar of the propellers as they came out of the water when a huge wave hit and at times the floor became nearly perpendicular and I thought we were going to capsize. The walls would creak loudly as if all the rivets would come undone. The ship stopped serving meals and everyone seemed to be confined to their cabins in bed, trying not to crash into the walls. It lasted for much of one day and the worst took several hours to get through. I believe that it was a hurricane named Becky but I'm not sure.