BIGGER CONVOYS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 3

BIGGER CONVOYS

BRITAIN TO RUSSIA

(ii-eat Gallantry Of Merchant Seamen

Rrc. 1 30 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 28. W-i S - u V lO - lx '<ent convoy to '. • u delivered the lirfTr>~t Si;S"S s " pp , ll r- tanks »•"< by thc vnv i X,)t onl .y are the conwi'll he t>vr>n S 'i Kuln , g ,m ' but t-hev an \r-iiM Both the Russia * 1 1 .- v 'alta convoys will havr> the maximum protection possible" .ho" ST:. and aircraft . i n "e< 1 Nations are now nut *; nppin R the Axis, he said and the ', m > l ' an nrv(, i' hope to equal the Allied aircraft in the making to R s h X in U r', iVors from a convoy tfi-ckiV " ! ; ,ul - v an 'ived in Britain hi< V/. ■ /-] •--ui'vivor said that, after • vessel sank the c-nh it! . . sm - v "" r s hip." He Vave , the course to follow werp° a< ii" 1 ' 1 ancl alsr) food - Thev pickup. m a before BritV■h Ut m S '? Ih ° R a llantry of the Isi if merchant seamen were naid ivhic h e h? ,L '-' rS ,' )l a Hritish destrover. W hen h JU rct >' rn «l from Malta. J ' ''cccnt Malta convoy was at lac kf d 1 1\ (.erman aircraft a mer•md s-mk ' Uas h , i - t by sev cral bomos and sank immediately. I cannot speak too highly of the • heer puts of the men of that ship," llK> destroyer oflicer. "Thev othm- S u nß !i lK cnc " lir "ecnicnt to each < thu as they swam for their lives m, Flo P'econ of wreckage." J he destroyer altogether saved 45 seamen, and those rescued cheered themselves hoarse as the destroyer steamed at full speed to rejoin the convoy.