Wednesday, July 14, 1915

Turned out at 3:30 to go below on the 4 to 8 watch. I felt fine until breakfast time when I began to get hungry. The main feed pump broke so we had to slow down to 50 turns. The watch was fairly easy. From 8 in the morning until 8 at night, when I took the 8-12, I had nothing to do but cork off - and I did that most of the time. We had a wonderful lunch. All the pineapple and oranges and cake and iced tea that we could possibly eat. At noon we were about in the middle of the Caribbean making 62 turns - but the current of the Gulf Stream held us back so that from 8 - 12 this morning we made only 10 miles. Had a fine clear night.