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Location
New York - Halifax
Age
17 Years

18th August 1940

Fortunately, we have been able to see those parts of the Hudson River, that we were unable to see going up, owing to the dark. We reached New York once more, at 8pm. We also saw the Queen Elizabeth and the Normandy again.

We dropped the pilots at New York and then started out for Halifax.

Food is becoming pretty poor – the usual breakfast being beef steak (an uneatable one!), and the usual dinner being beef, cabbage and potatoes (the meat being also uneatable!). Complaints are going round. They say it is because both the steward and the cook are niggers, and are working it between them to get a little extra money off what they save!

We are very low down in the water now, being only 7’ or 8’ above the water line at the lowest point.

Apparently the Germans have been machine gunning the streets in London; whether it is true or not, I can’t say.

The average for the outward journey was 8.03 knots p.hr.