There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. Non...There were dozens of us on the ship, all ages, boys and girls, and we were all up on deck for the leaving of liverpool, gulls wheeling and crying over our heads, calling good-bye, I thought they were waving good-bye. None of us spoke.