All rights reserved. Meanwhile, Lois Jornlin, the wife of the ship's captain, Robert D. Jornlin was waiting at their home in Earlville, Ill., for a phone call from the Bahamas. She said she received a call from Linda Gunjak, a spokeswoman for the Toledo, Ohio-based United States LST Association, who apparently talked to someone on the dock in Nassau and learned that the ship was about to leave late Thursday for the final leg of its journey to Mobile. They were going to turn their clocks to Mobile time after they left Nassau.
Nassau time is one hour ahead of Mobile.
Lois Jornlin said she has not talked to her husband since Jan. 1. In Mobile, the ship will become a feature attraction of the September reunion in the city of the LST association. The vets have been at sea since Dec. 12, when they left Gibraltar after running into some engine trouble in the Mediterranean and stopping for nearly a month. The trip began in Greece on Nov. 17. They said it could not have been done.