' Ark ' is berthed in Mayport. The crew have three weeks' rest and recreation. After two months at sea, every man jack is out for a good time. Disneyworld, the beach, the pool, the swinging clubs of Jacksonville are all favourite haunts. But the flight-deck handlers turn from pleasures of the flesh. Keen ornithologists, they bird-watch among the snakes and alligators of the Everglades.
L/Steward Conway has crammed a wedding into his weeks. He leaves his new wife on the quay-side, as ' 'Ark' steams off under the benign eye of the local police chief, who gives the British sailor ten out of ten for good behaviour.
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