FIVE TRANSPORTS.
Sir,-Perhaps Mr. Bernard Magee and his readers would be interested to know the names of those five transports which sailed from Alexandria for Taranto twenty-five years ago. This convoy, which conveyed so many thousands of soldiers recruited from all parts of the Empire, sailed the Mediterranean for many months together, and Armistice Day, 1918, found them still together safely at anchor in Taranto Harbour, after many attacks during those perilous months. The Ormonde (Orient Line) was doing her maiden voyage, the other four were the Norman (Union Castle), Indarra and Canberra (Australian) and the Maliva (P. & O.). Then, as now, little was to be seen of the Italian navy, but Mr. Magee may recall, passing on the starboard side immediately upon entering the harbour, the Italian battle-cruiser lying keel uppermost. Somebody had placed a bomb aboard. The people of Taranto must by now be accustomed to seeing their beautiful battleships re-
clining on anything but an even keel.-
L. J.
BAIN
(Milburn).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 4
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