Polish Destroyer “Garland’s” Heroic 5-day Fight to Protect Convoy to to Russia: With a convoy taking war supplies to Russia by the Northern route was the Polish destroyer O.R.P. “Garland.” U-bbats, dive bombers, bombers and torpedo planes kept up vicious non-stop attacks on the convoy for 5 days and 5 nights. The Gerland’s guns were in continuous action and so effective that she seemed singled out for special attention by the enemy. Rocked from stem to stern by a near stick of bombs, she emerged with every gun firing. As her gunners were killed or wounded, cooks and mechanics stepped into their places. The gunnery officer carried on with a severe neck wound. One rating kept his gun firing single-handed when all his cofrades were killed. Every man on the Garland did his duty with calm heroism and the convoy reached its destination. The officer of the watch and the signalman on the bridge of O.R.P. “Garland.”

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3270, 31 May 1943, Page 6

Polish Destroyer “Garland’s” Heroic 5-day Fight to Protect Convoy to to Russia: With a convoy taking war supplies to Russia by the Northern route was the Polish destroyer O.R.P. “Garland.” U-bbats, dive bombers, bombers and torpedo planes kept up vicious non-stop attacks on the convoy for 5 days and 5 nights. The Gerland’s guns were in continuous action and so effective that she seemed singled out for special attention by the enemy. Rocked from stem to stern by a near stick of bombs, she emerged with every gun firing. As her gunners were killed or wounded, cooks and mechanics stepped into their places. The gunnery officer carried on with a severe neck wound. One rating kept his gun firing single-handed when all his cofrades were killed. Every man on the Garland did his duty with calm heroism and the convoy reached its destination. The officer of the watch and the signalman on the bridge of O.R.P. “Garland.”