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‘ACROSS THE ISLAND

Retired Master Tells 1942 ‘Torpedo Story

By NEIL A. MATHESON Provinclal-Farm Editor A RECOMMENDATION that several officers and men whe served on the SS Prince Edward Island during a wartime sub- marine attack should get retognition, is contained in a letter from John R. B. Maguire, retired senior master on the Borden. Tormentine ferry service. It is apparent from Captain Maguire's letter that these men rer te in great measure to maintaining a ecarferry

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steamer for the Borden-Tormentine route during the grim years of World War 2. The SS Charlottetown, sunk in 1941 enroute to arydoek-“Tt Was forint! the simmer of 1947 that the MV Abeg- weit wag made available. :

Had the Prince Edward Island been put out.of action all that would have been available would be the. Scotia. It

would have provided very limited train ferry service in the e a ice-free months. But it would have had to tie up during the Cyril and Roy Lear e Iberton ae

+ months when an ice-breaker was needed. The situation would P-E.1 really have been grim for this province. . A “i

The letter, which is reproduced here, gives.some of the

most interesting details of the escape of the SS Prince Edward

Island from an enemy submarine on a voyage down the St.

Lawrence from a refit at Lauzon, Quebee in September, 1942.

Escape Story Is Colorful

Capt. Maguire continues:

“I was in charge of the ship on that occasion and she did Bot have ships of the convov around hers

’ “We were in the front line of the convoy and on the star- board side as we were to leave the convoy about five miles from North Cape, P.E.I., and to proceed down the Northumber- - land Strait on our own. .

“The first torpedo hit a Greek ship, about 400 feet on our port side, and they immediately began to launch their boats.

We. were proceeding on four coal-burning boilers—at that time only two boilers had been. converted to oil. The other four were ‘not converted until 1946, Capt. Maguire ‘explains.

Bruce Stewart and Company, Charlottetown had started te convert two boilers to oil inthe winter of 1941-42, and during all of that winter the ‘ship was more or less crippled, as with only four boilers under steam she was lacking one- third of her power. .

Those two oil-burning boilers had been completely converted

. ne while she was in for the refit at Lauzon. Capt Maguire bere em that ains. Waly Night in ae Bs Ce Sirake: moet ; _— Riles yore Renee aye . Samily, always. At Christmas- . Ship Escaped Under Full Power shat whose ebeh def

“Immediately the action of the submarine began the twe oil-burning boilers were cut in to serve it, and due to the manoeuvreability of the ship with full power, we eseaped twe

you every happiness and the best of geed fortama, Our grateful thanks for your friendly patrames-

— ¢ torpedoes aimed. at us. : e ‘ : ; “The phosphorous in the water pigs * nooo 7 ; Maguire recalls, “‘we on the bridge could see 8 coming through the water, and although the ship was manoeu- McCONNELL SHOPPING ' 4 -vred to escape them, they passed very close to us! :

“Realizing that there was not at that time any other ship which could take over on the Borden-Tormentine run, and supply service for P.E.I.,. the airports at Summerside and town’’—there -was—a full-scale: military airport here then run by the RAF, and later by the RCAF—Capt Maguire explains “as we did not have a weapon of any sort, I decided -to save the ship if possible, so I rang for full speed ahead, got out of there and headed for Borden.” :

The Master didn't break silence on the radio telephone “‘which at that time was only of frequency for 80 miles, and for Borden station.” /

“If I wished,’ the Captain explains, ‘I could not have

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Four Men Win Special Praise DUVAR’S RADIO SERVICE

THE RETIRED Master explains that he wishes te give -% ; oie eredit to four men for their action on that occasion. Montague P - EI.

“The ship traveled at 18 and three-quarter knots while at ; full speed. Her bearings had all been ‘‘white-mettled’’—similar to putting new bearings in a car,”’ he explains.

“The work had been supervised by R. A. MacPherson, chief engineer, and the late Frank Dalziel, Sr. The work ‘had been done so efficiently under the careful supervision of these men that not one of the newly-installed bearings became hot under the full-steam ahead conditions, Capt.. Maguire recalls |

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with appreciation. “There are two mew to whom I wish to give credit,” adds = Capt Maguire, ‘Capt. H. G. MacKenzie, was quartermaster on watch at the time, and the chief engineer came and asked for permission to go down in the furnace room.”’

But, explains Capt Maguire “H. G. MacKenzie who was at the wheel, and had heard the remark, spoke up ‘Captain, put a man at the wheel and I will go down’ and trim coal’, which he did, and along with him went Clarence Waddell. A man was put at the wheel. There was no other volunteer”. |

“THESE MEN SHOULD GET SOME RECOGNITION FOR THEIR BRAVERY IN ACTION”, Capt. Maguire em- phasizes. :

In contrast to the reaction of these men, the former Master explains ‘“Many’ others started to lower the lifeboats, and I had to send: Capt. John G. Dicks of Georgetown, P.£.1., who was mate on watch, with a club to drive them from the boats’’.. The men would have been drowned, Capt. Maguire explains, with the ship travelling at that speed.

I thank Capt. Maguire sincerely for his most interesting» letter and commend to the responsible people, the recom- | mendations that the men singled out for their bravery under | fire»“should receive some award, Most certainly they earned recognition. Most certainly they mérit the thanks of a grate- ful people. The only regret is that the recognition has been eo long delayed. .

Alternative Almost Unthinkable

IT 1S impossible for present generation people to realize

+ just how much anxiety Island people felt concerning the ¢ross-

| ' Strait service when a single incident, enemy action or some

other cause, could have cut us off from the mainland at any time

Capt. Maguire modestly passes on all of the credit to the others, but I suggest that this man must have played a large part in the successful attempt to elude the submarine’s tor- pedoes and get his. ship back safely to Borden. . -

Capt. H. G. MacKenzie referred te is now senior master on the ferry service at Borden.

I'm serious about that recognition suggestion. Our own ‘province could recognize them suitably, if no federal depart- ment is interested. A suitable certificate could be prepared S the province, “ye ee our ue ie oe , or

Premier Shaw himself, depending entirely on -what the premier and his government might decide. : -T\'s the sensom for merry making and

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