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Author: arthur john harvey |
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Date Posted: 15/11/07 12:58pm In reply to: Phil McAvity 's message, "looking for ship" on 10/11/07 1:17pm Thursday 15 November 2007 Brian Do not recall the name of Frampton but there was a crew of 500 mainly stewards, only 21 deck hands plus 6 QM,I lamp lighter,bosun and bosun's mate.We had a corvette painted on each side to give the impression at sea that we had an escort.The first three trips were troops to Durban then to BA and load meat plus some passengers for UK, recently was able to obtain voyage cards from London but the last trip I done was missing.On enquiring I found that it was not generally posted but put on a secret list which I found eventually, the reason was that we carried high ranking POWs and left Durban for New York; with the armed raiders in the South Atlantic it would have been a possible for such vessel to find us and collect their POWs, hence the secrecy.I believe the guard for the POWs was survivors of the battleship Barnham which had been sunk. Regards Arthur [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Re: looking for ship | Peter J Murphy | 16/11/07 11:12am |
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