First Voyage

First Voyage 

Excited and hoping but still 

frightened of the sea, so large and 

full of unknown weapons of the 

Sea.  Boarding the Brittanic the 

sister ship of the Titanic,

outfitted for untrained Vads and 

Nurses.  Bound for Malta, that small 

island filled with wounded sick and 

dying victims of the bloody 

War.  On the Brittanic, pleasure 

seemed to be something that the old

Sister-in-charge viewed as sinful,

and banished it as well she could.

When the nurses landed for the 

transfer, the next ship was nothing 

close to the clean beauty of the

Brittanic.  Unclean cold metal 

cots hung from the ceiling and the 

bathroom was but pots in a small 

room with no dividers.  Soon an

unknown sickness spread around the 

VAD's and nurses stuck in the cold

bottom of the ship, and when they 

got to Malta, Vera was sick 

three weeks before she was assigned 

light duty at the hospital.