We lay in “Calcutta”, for four and a half days, before the anxious day arrived. January __ 42 we set sail, and our ship pointed her nose down the “River Hooglie,” and so to the open sea, “The Indian Ocean.” Jan __ saw us at the bar of the Hooglie, and there we put off our pilot, and after each ship had done this in turn, we headed out to sea, and soon formed up into a convoy, Eight ships in a row, and after each ship.
HMAS Manoora 1942 - armed escort to convoy SR 4 out of Calcutta. ref.
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#start Our lads by this time were all quite excited, but they seemed to me, “although it was something they never ever thought they would experience,” to take everything in their stride. As for the old boys who had been to sea before, they seemed to take everything as a matter of course. Actually, after speaking to them, you realised that they really loved the experience, in spite the fact that they knew what lay ahead of us all. Every one of them was grand. We lay in “Calcutta”, for four and a half days, before the anxious day arrived. January __ 42 we set sail, and our ship pointed her nose down the “River Hooglie,” and so to the open sea, “The Indian Ocean.” Jan __ saw us at the bar of the Hooglie, and there we put off our pilot, and after each ship had done this in turn, we headed out to sea, and soon formed up into a convoy, Eight ships in a row, and after each ship. #end
#start We were escorted, by an HMAS Manoora Australian Armed Merchant Cruiser and later we picked up another
HMIS Indus small escort vessel. We lay in “Calcutta”, for four and a half days, before the anxious day arrived. January __ 42 we set sail, and our ship pointed her nose down the “River Hooglie,” and so to the open sea, “The Indian Ocean. #end”
HMAS Manoora 1942 - armed escort to convoy SR 4 out of Calcutta. ref.
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Jan __ saw us at the bar of the Hooglie, and there we put off our pilot, and after each ship had done this in turn, we headed out to sea, and soon formed up into a convoy, Eight ships in a row ...missing script...
Our lads by this time were all quite excited, but they seemed to me, “although it was something they never ever thought they would experience,” to take everything in their stride. As for the old boys who had been to sea before, they seemed to take everything as a matter of course. Actually, after speaking to them, you realised that they really loved the experience, in spite the fact that they knew what lay ahead of us all. Every one of them was grand.
We were escorted, by an HMAS Manoora Australian Armed Merchant Cruiser and later we picked up another
HMIS Indus small escort vessel. We lay in “Calcutta”, for four and a half days, before the anxious day arrived. January __ 42 we set sail, and our ship pointed her nose down the “River Hooglie,” and so to the open sea, “The Indian Ocean.”
HMAS Manoora 1942 - armed escort to convoy SR 4 out of Calcutta. ref.
click here
Jan __ saw us at the bar of the Hooglie, and there we put off our pilot, and after each ship had done this in turn, we headed out to sea, and soon formed up into a convoy, Eight ships in a row ...missing script...
Our lads by this time were all quite excited, but they seemed to me, “although it was something they never ever thought they would experience,” to take everything in their stride. As for the old boys who had been to sea before, they seemed to take everything as a matter of course. Actually, after speaking to them, you realised that they really loved the experience, in spite the fact that they knew what lay ahead of us all. Every one of them was grand.