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Saturday Sept 29th
Feeling crook this morning. Altho the sea isnt very rough, I suppose it was through sleeping below, as it is very stuffy & hot down there. I feel as if I dont want to eat anything & the mere talk of going below makes me shudder. I haven't vomited yet tho. A pal of mine brought up my tea & bed, so I am set now until tomorrow. We have six destroyers & a battle cruiser with us now. One of the destroyers started firing at something just after dinner, at first of course all thought it was a submarine, but later it was found out to be some wreckage they were breaking up, so as not to cause injury to any other boat.
My cobber & myself have a sleeping posey on No 2 hatch, no more sleeping blow for mine. Everybody is looking forward to some pay, the rumor is they are going to give us a pound & two pounds worth of canteen chits, but I dont think the troops will stand for it as they like to have the hard cash. Things are very cheap in the canteen. I suppose it is because there is no duty: Tobacco & cigarettes are exceptionally cheap, tobacco is 6d for 2 oz tin, cigarettes 2d per packet.
POSITION OF SHIPS IN CONVOY
Auxiliary Cruiser
("Derwent Castle")
"S.S. Borderer". "S.S. Suevic". "Balmoral Castle". "Hororata".