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Location
At Sea - Liverpool - New Zealand
Age
17 Years

4th May 1940

As we are now past a certain longitude, the hours of watch have been changed again, but I am still on at night (2 am – 8 am).

Although there is still a very heavy swell, the sea has been behaving itself remarkably well. The ship, being light for lack of cargo, rises to every wave that it meets but this is hardly felt where we are, in the centre of the ship – or should I say “amidships”. Another four days will see us at Auckland, and I understand there’s plenty to see  there. There is one advantage a wireless officer has over the navigating officer and that is he has all the time off when in Port. So really he gets a three weeks, paid holiday, in New Zealand. Not so bad when you look at it like that. Last night we listened to the news again but heard nothing fresh, excepting the announcers pronunciation of “allies” and “allied”, stress been given to the 1st  syllable.