AWATEA’S ESCAPE
Atlantic Attack Before Ultimate Loss HALIFAX (Nova Scotia). June 30. ' They called the Awatea an unlucky ship when she was running troops out of Halifax, but one incident in her transatlantic career, cloaked by censorship till now, should dispel that reputation, savs the Canadian I’ress. '[’he Awatea sailed for Britain in the fall of 1012 laden with the members of a s Canadian division in a convoy which D'boats attacked off the Nova Scotia coast. An American destroyer escort saw a torpedo headed for the Awatea. The destroyer. with her engines racing, dasiied to the Awatea’s side and deliberately absorbed the torpedo, which ripped the destroyer to shreds and caused so great u concussion that a hole was ripped in the bow of the Awatea which returned to port oo.hours after her departure. This story has been passed by censorship. but. never confirmed olhcially. Several soldiers on board wore Inter jnexitioned in dispatches, however, for their bravery in assisting to keep the ship afloat till she reached port. The Awatea sailed again uneventfully three weeks later. The Awatea was sunk during the Allied invasion of North Africa.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 6
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189AWATEA’S ESCAPE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 6
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