FIVE TRANSPORTS.
Sir,-Mr. L. J. Bain talks of 25 years ago, and I received the impression from Mr. B. Magee’s article that he crossed the Mediterranean in 1915. Therefore Mr. Bain’s names would not be quite correct, as at Christmas, 1917, the convoy consisted of six vessels: Kaiser-i-Hind, Malwa, Indarra, Canberra, Omrah, and Leasowe Castle. The last two were lost by torpedo. I saw the Omrah hit one morning early in 1918, and I was on the Leasowe Castle which sank at midnight on May 27, 1918. The Ormonde replaced the Omrah and the Norman the Leasowe Castle. I was glad to hear they were safe at the armistice, but would like to hear that the Kaiser-i-Hind was also present as she was No. 1. The name of the sunken battleship was the Leonardo da Vinci and she was refloated with compressed air some
years later.-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 4
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