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5.11.18
There are several warships here. Discharged our cargo until 11 p.m. & closed up hatches hove up at 12 p.m. & shifted to Inside of the mine field at 1 a.m. & dropped anchor with the Canberra & 5 destroyers ready for departure at daylight tomorrow. The Caladonia which was to come with us her departure was cancelled as the Cruiser H.M.S. Grafton & several French cruisers & several British destroyers are loading up troops & stores with British troopships for the Dardanelles. They are going to take over the forts & take over the Bosphorus forts & Constantinople. We had Greek labor working our Troop stores. They worked very indifferent & slow. In fact about the slowest, lot of lumpers we have had so far. We left with about 50 tons of Indian meal & 15 tons of case goods & 65 hogsheads of rum which was consigned to Salonika.
6.11.18
At 6 a.m. we hove up & proceeded through the mine field with the H.M.T. Canberra, 3 Jap destroyers, 1 British, 1 Australian the Swan as escorts. We are the Guide ship & the Naval Captain (The Commdore) is in charge of our ships & of the whole escort. We heard today by wireless that the B.I. troopship Surada & 2 others were torpedoed off Port Said they left the day after us Nov. 2nd one was sunk & the other two got in safely to Port Said. This particular B.I. boat a schoolmate of mine was Captain of her. She was the Guide ship of the 5 cargo boats