ON CONVOY DUTY
EX-WHAKATANE BOY ■ .ii -■ -. MR M. CANNING'S LETTER In a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs A. J. Canning, of King Street, Mr Majmard Canning who is at present engaged on convoy duty, be-r tween the United Kingdom and West Africa, has some interesting experiences to recount. On his most recent trip no less than 28 ships were convoyed. Later this large mercantile flotilla was attacked by two 'tinfish' (submarines> but the attackers were driven off bydestroyers, though the Nazi's claimed that they had sunk one of ther merchantmen. Mr Canjting speaks of FreetoAvn, the coital of Sierra Leone, as being almost uninteresf- * ing place, the hoteis being the bes| buildings, and the white population, being composed mainly of naval: men. He was at the time of writing looking forward to a week's leave in England, after which his ship will resume its run between England: and Ireland. All told he has been four months at sea without a breaks
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 156, 6 May 1940, Page 4
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163ON CONVOY DUTY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 156, 6 May 1940, Page 4
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