Hi wildhogget.I can understand why your father,ran away.but to run to the sea takes a man to do so.My father also boxed and played football.I had my first photo of my father as a young boy only last year.IT MADE MY DAY!The boys of st vincents worked hard for the nuns.We will never know how they were treated not in reality.secrets stay with them and so does the past .I THINK WE ALL HAD TO BE IN THIS PLACES TO KNOW THE TRUTH.kind regards tracey