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17th Dec.

Steaming along nice and calm all day and several times through the day we noticed sharks following the boat.

They have got some of the A1 class soldiers down in the stokehold stokeing and they are geting good speed out of the engines. This is this boats maiden trip to Australia and they want to do it in as quick a time as they can. They are paying the soldiers 8/- a shift. Our average of speed is a little over 300 miles for 24 hours about 13 knots a hour. The Indian crew could'nt get near that much speed up.  There as been a tournment tournement on of all kinds of games this evening.

 

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