article_snippet.sent: In fact, the incident has only come to light thanks to a secret diary kept by one of HMS Ulster Queen engineers, and now revealed by his daughter for the first time in a new book.
article_snippet.sent: Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas had got into the habit of keeping copious notes and sketches during Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas pre-war role as the Discovery.
article_snippet.sent: Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas had joined the Discovery as a 17-year-old in Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas native Portsmouth.
article_snippet.sent: that should any of Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas diaries be discovered Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas would be in serious trouble, Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas wrote in code and secreted his diaries well.
article_snippet.sent: Before Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas died in 2000, aged 88, Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas transcribed some of his diaries into four A4 journals, which Edinburgh man Leonard H. Thomas daughter, Leona Thomas, has now edited into a book.
article_snippet.sent: According to her father's notes, there had been 'a peculiar silence all through the ship' as her was loaded in Russia.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Thomas, who died in 2000 aged 88, pictured with his late wife Louie in 1996 . '
article_snippet.sent: Written in the diaries left for his daughter, Mr Thomas said: 'I was thankful to keep all these years, the actual daily scroll of some of the harrowing times I found his in, especially the runs in the arctic waters so fraught with danger, both man-made and that of nature.'
article_snippet.sent: Mr Thomas wrote in Mr Thomas diary how the crew of the Ulster Queen had hoped the crew of the Ulster Queen ship would be chosen to steam straight for America, so the crew of the Ulster Queen could 'live their ship up' for a few days before returning to war-torn Europe.