CAPTAIN HARRISON MAYCROFT
....we were almost to Curaçao, and going through Windward Passage already....headed between Cuba and Hispaniola, and we were heading for Curaçao....there were submarines in the area, and we knew it....we were light....we had levelled the empty tanks off with salt water....just opened up the valves and let the ship go down to sea level, so that if she was attacked, and got hit, she wouldn't sink....just let the tanks fill up and just let her sail like that....