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[9th April 1915]
ruthers, & scores of officer's, so our boat was rather an important one. We left Alexandria for the great adventure on the 9th April, & as we sailed past the American cruiser "Tennesse", they came & had a look at us, but never a cheer beyond one or two, did they raise, I suppose most of them were Germans on board & would liked to have opened fire on us, instead, all the other boats in the harbour gave us a good send off, & thus we sailed from Alexandria we had a bonzer trip to Lemnos" the water of the Mediterranean is a different colour to any that I have ever seen before, it is almost a bright blue, & looks lovely as the ship churns her way through throwing the snow white foam
from her bows, we arrived at Lemnos" a Greek island that was taken over by the British along with "Imbros" at the outbreak of the war, the entrance to Mudros harbour was netted, so a destroyer came out & showed us the way in. A lot of us thought we had arrived at the Dardanelles" when we were sailing into the harbour, when we got round the last headland we could see the harbour was a mass of ships, & warships of Great Britain France & Russia were there, including big Lizzie" what a monster she looked with her enormous guns pointed straight in front of her, we anchored there & soon the traders were all around us, the next day we all