IN NORTH RUSSIAN PORT
BRITISH SHIP OVERHAULED (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 23. An ex-Gormau trawler now sailing under the White Ensign, is one of a few British warships which have been refitted in Russia. She recently spent a month in a northern Russian port 25 miles behind the front line while Russian workers, under the direction of a Russian engineer captain, repaired the damage done by ice and overhauled the ship’s engines. The work was done without interpreters.
Describing the way the Russians worked, the trawler’s captain said: “ If they were unable to finish a certain job, they would keep at it until 2or 3 a.m. Often I went down to the engine room and asked if they wanted food, but they would not eat until they had finished the job.”
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Evening Star, Issue 24281, 24 August 1942, Page 4
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135IN NORTH RUSSIAN PORT Evening Star, Issue 24281, 24 August 1942, Page 4
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