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Wed Mar. 21 Cont.
stern. Ship carries 9 life boats, 9 collapsible boats,1 small boat & rafts. (Wireless) Bristish Destroyer sunk by sub off Dover & one damaged.
Thur Mar. 22nd
Weather very cold & sea choppy. Sub- alarm 2-0 PM. Boat do. [alarm] 2-10 P.M. Our section off guard at 9-0 AM. Expect to reach England about Sunday night. Final of Pioneers boxing tournament today. Farewell concert by 35th to ship's & our officers in our Mess Room. Each man on sub-guard carried 10 rnds ammunition & orders are to fire on any suspicious looking craft or object on the water, to give alarm to officer on the bridge. At 5-0 P.M. passed several troopships with cruiser escort on way to Salonika travelling South. (Wireless) British still advancing on West front.