ATLANTIC CROSSING
A CONVOY SIGHTED
BATTLESHIP ALTERS COURSE
LONDON, August 18.
A British newspaperman on board one of the destroyers which escorted Mr. Churchill home from the Atlantic meeting with Mr. Roosevelt said that there were no signs of German oceangoing submarines or long-range bombers.
The Prime Minister, he said, had real friends on the trip. The rendezvous lay somewhere in the North Atlantic, but only a few officers knew exactly where.
The escort also included Canadian destroyers and Catalina flying-boats. The flying-boats sighted a large convoy fifty miles away, homeward bound. Mr. Churchill had never seen a large convoy at sea and did not want to miss it, so the course was altered.
The newspaperman said that as v far [as the eye could see there were ships —tankers, freighters, big ships, and little ships—over eight miles of ships. . The Prince of Wales steamed right through the convoy, and steamed through it a second time, and then after wishing it "God speed," sailed ion to Iceland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 43, 19 August 1941, Page 7
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