THE QUEEN MARY
NEW ZEALAND TROOPS CONVEYED TO ENGLAND. GREAT LINER VOYAGED WITHOUT ESCORT. SYDNEY, October 1. It can now be revealed that the liner Queen Mary (81,235 tons) has been in Sydney Harbour. She was fitted to carry more than 10,000 troops and took Australian forces to the Middle East and Singapore. She was in the formidable armada that took the first contingent of Australian and New Zealand troops to England in 1940. Later she brought American troops to Australia at the time when every ship counted. Her vast accommodation and great speed pernitted her to make voyages without escort, thus taking the place of moderately-sized convoys. Probably half the Australian population knew that the Queen Mary had visited Sydney Harbour, and the Axis undoubtedly knew too, because the Jananese Consul-General’s residence overlooked the harbour. Till now the newspapers have never mentioned the whereabouts of the liner, which the Germans constantly referred to on their radio as a great prize.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1943, Page 3
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161THE QUEEN MARY Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1943, Page 3
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