"AWAY BOARDER”: Boarding practice at sea by a British destroyer. Pulling up alongside a-tanker, a destroyer took the opportunity of giving the crew a realistic boarding practice. On the order “away boarders” the seamen, fully armed, leapt aboard the oiler while a comrade covered their advance with his tommy-gun. The hoarding party tinhatted and fully armed, leaping from destroyer to tanker. The seaman with the covering tommy-gun is seen behind them
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3229, 19 February 1943, Page 3
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71"AWAY BOARDER”: Boarding practice at sea by a British destroyer. Pulling up alongside a-tanker, a destroyer took the opportunity of giving the crew a realistic boarding practice. On the order “away boarders” the seamen, fully armed, leapt aboard the oiler while a comrade covered their advance with his tommy-gun. The hoarding party tinhatted and fully armed, leaping from destroyer to tanker. The seaman with the covering tommy-gun is seen behind them Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 52, Issue 3229, 19 February 1943, Page 3
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