***The following is an excerpt from the book the Triangle run:
>She had come upon it unexpectedly, on a snowy January Morning south of Cape Race Newfoundland, a solitary lifeboat with six occupants sitting upright in their seats.There was no movement,no shout or sound of any kind. Two of the destroyers sailors had to jump aboard to secure it along side.In addition to the six men still sitting motionless in their seats we could see there were a further six men lying on the bottom boards, but closer examination showed that they were dead covered with ice from freezing spray. The remaining six were in little better condition. All were frost bitten; Some were frozen to their seats where they sat. One in particular drew horrified gasps from the onlookers. He had managed to clothe himself only with a short coat; from the waist down he was naked, his lower torso and legs as black as coal and covered with a thin sheet of ice - and yet he lived, his eyes rolling upward in mute appeal. Sitting in the stern sheets, his hand frozen to the tiller sat a giant of a man, He was incapable of speech and had to be pryed from boat. The Corvette they called home had been torpedoed and thirty eight survivors crowded into two life boats. In mountainous seas one boat disappeared: the other had drifted for four days in blizzard conditions,they simply died and froze where they sat or lay>
**To me Model building is a celebration of the Ship, the crew that sailed in them and the good times and bad they had to endure. The purpose of the above passage is to illustrate whether they served in a Corvette, Capital Ship or Rowboat; Does it really matter???