“For some reason Capt. Fryatt was kept in his cabin, and I was sent
to the bridge, not to assist or officiate in any way, but simply to
stand under guard and to be questioned at intervals by the Germans if
they could get the right answers. During the passage from Zeebrugge
to Bruges both sides of the canal were thronged in places, and both
the soldiers and the marine Landsturm were greatly excited. On
reaching Bruges the crew were taken off and sent to a waiting shed.
Only Capt. Fryatt and myself, with many German officers, remained on
board. After we had been questioned at lunch Capt. Fryatt and I were
photographed, and we then joined the crew in the shed, being afterward
taken to a building in the town. All of us, including stewardesses and
twenty-five Russians, were packed in, leaving scarcely standing room.