* POLISH DESTROYER "GARLAND'S"' HEROIC 5-DAY FIGHT TO PROTECT CONVOY: With a convoy taking war supplies to RusaV by the Northern route was the Polish destroyer O.R.P. Garland,. U boats, dive bombers andj torpedo planes kept up vicious non-s'op attacks on the convov for 5 daj*s. and nights. The Garland's guns were in continuous action and so effective that she seemed .jingled out for special attention by the enemy. Rocked from stem to stern by a ner stick of bombs, she emerged Avith every gun firing. As her gunners were killed or wounded, cooks and mechanic steppe: I into their places. The gunnery officer carried on with a severe neck Around. One rating kept his gun firing single-handed. when all his comrades, -were killed. Every man on the G a rand did his duty Arith calm heroism and the convoy reache its destination. The officer of the wateli and the signalman on the bridge of O.R.P. Garland.

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 48, 16 February 1943, Page 3

* POLISH DESTROYER "GARLAND'S"' HEROIC 5-DAY FIGHT TO PROTECT CONVOY: With a convoy taking war supplies to RusaV by the Northern route was the Polish destroyer O.R.P. Garland,. U boats, dive bombers andj torpedo planes kept up vicious non-s'op attacks on the convov for 5 daj*s. and nights. The Garland's guns were in continuous action and so effective that she seemed .jingled out for special attention by the enemy. Rocked from stem to stern by a ner stick of bombs, she emerged Avith every gun firing. As her gunners were killed or wounded, cooks and mechanic steppe: I into their places. The gunnery officer carried on with a severe neck Around. One rating kept his gun firing single-handed. when all his comrades, -were killed. Every man on the G a rand did his duty Arith calm heroism and the convoy reache its destination. The officer of the wateli and the signalman on the bridge of O.R.P. Garland.