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RE: Quotes
Posted by:
Binnacle
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Date: March 31, 2001 07:42AM
<HTML>In November 1942 the British ship Benalder was to proceed from Freetown to
Takoradi in a small convoy of three: herself, one American and a Dutchman.
Naval custom had to be observed, and the captain of Benalder was appointed
Convoy Commodore and the Master of the American ship Vice Commodore,
wherupon the Dutch captain ruefully remarked \"And I suppose I\'m the bloody
convoy\".
As it turned out the \"bloody convoy\" was lucky. The American was sunk and
Benalder badly damaged by torpedo, while the Dutchman escaped.
Source - The Ben Line, G. Blake.
Bill
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Takoradi in a small convoy of three: herself, one American and a Dutchman.
Naval custom had to be observed, and the captain of Benalder was appointed
Convoy Commodore and the Master of the American ship Vice Commodore,
wherupon the Dutch captain ruefully remarked \"And I suppose I\'m the bloody
convoy\".
As it turned out the \"bloody convoy\" was lucky. The American was sunk and
Benalder badly damaged by torpedo, while the Dutchman escaped.
Source - The Ben Line, G. Blake.
Bill
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