Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 161
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Halifax and were glad to go to sea for a rest.
About this time the British Government was sending over gold to Halifax for transit to N York to pay the Americans for munitions they had made.
At intervals a cruiser would come in and steam right up to Bedford Basin at a pretty solid pace preceded by a torpedo boat to avoid the chance of being submarined with her £10,000,000 worth of bullion.
One day the Lowestoft came in and steamed right up the narrow Harbour which is at twenty knots and when she had finished the place looked as though a hurricane had passed by.
Boats were ripped from their moorings in the stream, craft alongside bumped the wharves & each other and generally knocked themselves about and the old Niobe snag against the Royal Canadian Navy snug against the wall broke clean adrift. She fairly shied.
The Lowestoft broke all Atlantic records for the trip across. She averaged about 27 knots.
The Argyll brought another load of gold