There was a lot Mr. Boeck could suffer without saying a word ( cited from Wilhelm Busch ) - but this was too much even for a cadet…
Every old fashioned chief engineer would not wait to refill his L.O.tanks under the described conditions and believe me or not – I would have been down there in the ECR and the first L.O. sump tank low level alarm under the prevailing conditions would have given me every right to refill my sump tanks to a safer level.