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Location
At Sea - Wellington (NZ) - Liverpool
Age
17 Years

3rd June 1940

I don’t see that there is much that I can write about nowadays, seeing as I just get up go on watch, eat, read, draw, go on watch, go to bed, then repeat the process.

The hour will be going forward again tomorrow, so we shall be 11 hours behind home time, and 10 hours behind G.M.T. When we are no hours behind home time, then we are very near home!

The deck hands said that they got a news on their wireless which said all merchant seaman between the ages of 19 and 36 will be taken for military service. If this is the case, then they will find it very difficult to run the same number of ships as they are now.