With so many extra people aboard the Master of the vessel had to find a port as quickly as possible and so he made for Newport News in Virginia. This place proved to be better than Vera Cruz and so Roald's family disembarked and stayed there for about a month. As I have already told you the Oddvar II was stationed on the eastern seaboard of the USA and so Roald's father joined his ship, with his family, in Mobile, Alabama. The Oddvar II had to spend some time in dry dock for repairs and so after two months in Alabama the ship proceeded in ballast to New Orleans and picked up a full cargo of military vehicles for Balboa, Panama Canal.
From Balboa after discharging the vehicles they proceeded, empty, to Manzanillo, Cuba to load a full cargo of sugar in bags for Jack Frosts Pier in Albany River, New York. After discharging their sugar the ship steamed in ballast to Newport News once more to load a full cargo of coal for Botwood, Newfoundland. By this time we had reached the end of 1941.
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