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Carl M. Allen
Kilimanjaro #1433
Colonia Independencia
Guadalajara, Jal.
Mexico
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HUMOROUS BUT PITHILY & APTLY POINTED, if not BARBED.

Dear Mr. Moore,

In the photocopy of your mis-informing "FRIEND'S" missive he states as follows "the S.S. Andrew Furuseth was in Norfolk, V.A. from the 18^th to the 25^th of October 1943" and then goes on to say "she (the S.S. Andrew Furuseth) set sail from Lynhaven, V.A. on the night of the 16^th (sixteenth) of October 1943.

Well, I got "news" for you about THAT.

It is clearly evident here that your confused friend says, in effect, that my ship, the S.S. Andrew Furuseth, was AT SEA on the night & days of October 17^th, and on the DAY of October the 16^th (sixteenth) and that she was sailing INTO the Norfolk, V.A. moorage on the 18^th & NOT out of it TWO DAYS PREVIOUSLY from "Lynhaven, V.A." Please, request your OBVIOUSLY TOTALLY CONFUSED MIS-INFORMANT TO QUIT-DRINKING SO HARD.

#2

ALSO, THERE IS ANOTHER WAY of receiving the highly curious statement of your "totally reliable authority" on my ship's whereabouts on the 16^th of October, 1943. He says, my ship, the S.S. Andrew Furuseth, was "IN THE NORFOLK AREA (which INCLUDES LYNHAVEN, V.A.) FROM October 18^th to October 25^th" or (and I'm going by MEMORY here of his written "official statement") that, the S.S. Andrew Furuseth was in the Norfolk, V.A. area from October 16^th to the 25^th" and then "set sail on the night of the sixteenth (16^th)."

Now, look either it, the ship, was COMING or it was GOING and HE, your confused "official" informant, has got my ship, the S.S. Andrew Furuseth BOTH COMING AND GOING on the night of Octorber 16^th, 1943.

As, during the wartime sea convoy days, ALL ships found it ABSOLUTELY necessary to take on desperately needed food and fresh water supplies and fuel-oil, it most certainly would appear, from your informant's viewpoint that the crew of S.S. A. Furuseth was the very most courageous in all maritime history as it left BEFORE it arrived AND WITHOUT the then necessary PROTECTION of NAVAL CONVOY WARSHIPS.

#3

ALSO, THE S.S. ANDREW FURUSETH, from the viewpoint of SCIENCE, is all too clearly the utmostly INTERESTING ship EVER to have come into the scientific ken. Not only because it, the S.S. Andrew Furuseth did not stop to unload its cargo, acquire absolutely & VITALLY necessary wartime supplies of food, fuel, water, and grimly necessary ammunition for its many & diverse guns & cannons, and not only because its officers and crew (long, to long without the pure & real pleasure of enjoying the company of real AMERICAN femininity) would most certainly have started a spontaneous MUTINY on the ship's Purira[sp?]-instantaneous turn-about for FOREIGN parts WITHOUT enjoying ANY of these physiological & psychological NECESSITIES, but because of the simple scientific fact that, according to your mis-informant, the S.S. Andrew Furuseth IS the most ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING ship EVER in all of SCIENTIFIC history: it has the amazing, if not astounding, ability to do the utterly IMPOSSIBLE: NAMELY TO GO IN TWO DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS IN SIMULTANIETY.

Cheers,

Carlos Miguel Alende