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THE JERVIS BAY Thirty-eight ships with food for you, Thirty-eight ships that must ’ get through; Atlantic calm and the dusk of day, And a shell screamed over the “Jervis Bay.” Thirty-eight ships, full steam ahead. Off with their needed cargoes sped: But over there where the warshins lay, Guns ablaze went the “Jervis Bay.” Fagen knew it and all his crew, This was the end, her captain knew; Buying minutes with lives to pay, Lord! They were men on the “Jervis Bay.” Pounded, shattered and smashed and lame, Fighting on with the decks aflame. She sank with the sun at the death of day, And a gun still spoke from the “Jervis Bay.” Thirty-eight ships with food for you. Twenty-nine ships came safely through; But the finest ship that has docked today, In the Empire’s heart, is the “Jervis Bay.”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 66, Issue 5597, 26 March 1943, Page 2
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