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TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 9956
(PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE)
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS,
"MACBRAYNE, GLASGOW."
30th October, 1940.
DAVID MACBRAYNE, Ltd.
8/04
To
44 ROBERTSON STREET,
REFERENCE
Director of Sea Transport,
GLASGOW, C.2.
Ministry of Shipping,
MARINE DEPT.
Berkeley Square House,
WP/JWA. born ship left Berkeley Square,
by the Ministry of Shipping, and LONDON, W.1.
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Your Ref: .6213/40/S.' except for a
Our destination VAS T.A.6.®, NO
the port quarter. This was soon laft behind and to
patrol boat off St Catherines. After 3 few days
and the ship was fitted with D.G. and radio, and
Dear Sirvoops. "Nothing to report" Vas the
things began to happen.
With reference to your letters of 7th and 14th August, we
herewith enclose reports sent to this Office from the heads of
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At departments on board our T.S. "KING we GEORGE V" and S.S. "LOCHGARRY".
when troops a British We are enclosing two typed copies from each department, namely,
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we Deck, Engine-Room and Catering. We trust this is what you require.
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We hit, regret and the delay back in sending you these reports, but this has
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been due to our General Manager's being to away from the Office on the
entesick list. we were attacked by a German alams
the port side. Our gunners let Yours faithfully,
plane and he gradually lost height and dropped into
by the B.B.C. that night, although
over 1,500 refugees from Ostemi
On
Sunday,
this work. On the Tues had 19th, Marine Super and intendent.
Monday
and
Tuesday
20th
explosive for demo tion purposes so bake to Boologas,
ENCLS: there the S.T.O. informed - that be could not bantle the
staff and I had better go out to the roads and another. To do this the
micide, as the German planse were sinking any skips that S did anaboe,
informed the S.T.O. that I was not going to anchor and that if I
harbour I would return to Dover. Be then saked RD if I would
to without be was very anxious to get away. I told him if
bioke the risk after being tale what they ware sitting on,
With this British courage not one of them benitated,
on board, and also about 1,000 we salled
basiness falling everywhere, and just as we cleared
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or German bombers dropped a salvo which
nearly 2030 ONE of the water, and 14 was
tear was out of order. However the
RECEIVED
code to put the helm 3948
all the
goar repaired.
Da Tuesday the ship DATE out of
Wednesday the ship morning proceed to
was
lato away a rull complement each time. Our THE ship wips
seemed to have a charmed life. Ships were bombed and shelled ahead of
and alongside and astern of us, and yet apart from a few shell splinters us and
machine-gun bullets we did not receive any damage.
On Saturday the 1st June the Second Officer, Mr Macdonald, had a narrow
escape. A piece of Shrapnel flew past him and smashed the glass of the docking
him/ telegraph aft alongside which he was standing. It seemed an unlucky day for