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4.3.19
Fine weather prevailed & every one enjoying the change from camp life. Deck quoits, cricket & all kind of games. The Tommies playing house for pennies & enjoying themselves throughly. At 10 a.m. we passed Phassa Is. Lt., at 1 p.m. steaming through the Doca Chanal & at 9 p.m. rounded the southern most Island of Greece AntiKithera Is. south west of Create.
5.3.19
Fine weather still prevails. At 10 a.m. we met the Huntspil troop ship bound from Taranto to Salonika, having one her officers on board as passengers. We signalled by semaphore & told them if they stopped & lowered a boat we would stop also & send their 3rd officer away. Consequently we both stopped, they sent a boat over & took their officer back with them. This delayed us ½ an hour. We are steaming under 2 less boilers & reduced speed of 13½ knots as we are short of coal. At 8 p.m. a concert was held on board in which hundreds joined in in the 2nd Saloon & proved to be a good one & a success.
6.3.19
At 7 a.m. we passed through the barrage of mines & nets & dropped anchor in the outer harbor. Throughout the trip we received wireless calls re floating mines some near of our track which still makes the passage dangerous. At 8 a.m. we passed through the Bridge into the Inner harbor in charge of a pilot & anchored ½ a mile off the shore near the British Camp. The Inner harbor still full of large & small warships. British, French & Italian & the British Warship Queen still moored here. At 9 a.m. we commenced to disembark & at noon 2500 troops, officers, sisters & men