ABSTRACT
On 5 April, Woodward wrote that this had been ‘the first day since leaving Gibraltar that there has been sufficient time to look much more than one day ahead! Not short of ideas: very short of answers’. Two days later he was ‘particularly keen that everyone should face up to the real possibility of war and the way that most habits will have to change’. He had emphasised that whatever happens, ‘we have a very long haul ahead and that our ships are our homes and they need tender loving care if they are ever to get us home’.
