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Location
Liverpool, UK
Age
17 Years

8th September 1940

We reached Liverpool at about 5pm, having come along exactly the same channel as we did last time. The first land was the coast of Ireland and one of the islands off Scotland – the island of Kintyre. So we were able to see Scotland and Ireland at the same time.

We had no sooner got through the locks into Gladstone Dock, than an air raid siren went; but it only lasted 5 minutes. We actually docked in Alexandra No.2 dock. The Liverpool docks are crammed with ships. Big ships too. The Dominion Monarch (Shaw Savill and Albion) is here and many others.

In the evening, two more warnings were sounded.

The ‘Cornish City’ which was the Commodore in our convoy, and which we were alongside all the way until this morning, was bombed and probably sunk this afternoon. She, and five other ships left for the Bristol Channel.