15 February 1963 
This past night was the worse we have experienced to date at 
se?, one of the party members Is quite sea sick ©gain. It was im¬ 
possible to get any sort of decent sleep, as I vs contlnuelly thrown 
from side to side in my bunk end against the bulk head beside my 
bunk. I am told that several of the crue members were thrown out 
of third deck bunks during the night, A cupboard of china in the 
galley got loss and was thrown around twith considerable smashing 
and crashing of china, pots, furniture, and books were thrown about 
in many areas of the ship. A large cabinet of tools m a ripped off 
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the wass in our storage room aft and it*s contents thrown around 
the room, tearing down and distrowing a drying rack and it’s contents. 
The rest of our equipment faired alright in the whole end no other 
items appeared to be damaged. I am afraid that much of the equip¬ 
ment in the trunk on deck would be ruined when we finally get to It. 
The watch reported th?t the ship had rolled over 40 dregrees during 
the night in the worse of the storm . This morning it is alsost 
impossible to do anything aboard as aroiias one lets go of something, 
one is thrown to one side oo the other, into furniture, against walls 
or other people in the room, I don*t know how ?nyone can get anything 
done aboard in weather like this. We approached Pearl and Hermes Reef 
about 0900 this morning , all could be seen from the distance was 
the water breaking over the Beef. The islands were not vlttw.c 
until we were about a mile away. Were as we had seen Lnysen and 
Lisisnski from a distance 
