and at withernsea we used to search their wavelengths, write down everything we heard — they kept radio but we were searching up and down their radio frequencies in our little secret stations. and i think we probably got a fair amount of useful information. and we passed the coded messages to bletchley park, and the plain language messages to the nearest naval intelligence centre. they would sometimes have a bit of chat, you know, "did you know so—and—so's boat "are all going on leave next week?". and the one that picked it up said: speaks german, "0h, they're all going to make babies". and we all wrote it down, because the rule was that everything you heard, you logged. and it might be useful for our side to know that these crews were going on leave, these boats would not be operating. even bits of gossip like that could come in useful, so we wrote everything down. i was transferred to a station between dover and folkestone, where we could hear, very loud and clear, german naval ships warming up in the harbours opposite, or going down the channel. we worked what we called watches, whic