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April 30, 1941.
By Walt Disney
THE CORVETTE
saves convoys
British merchant shipping losses have been getting smaller. Why? The corvette, Britain's new type of warship, now being built on mass production lines, is part of the answer. Here A. J. McWhinnie tells you about life in these tiny saviours of the convoys.
THE Atlantic outlook
brightening.
is
For a fortnight I have been. sailing thousands of miles out there, investigating the dan- gers, assessing the possibili- tion for the immediate future, and observing changes and developments in our unceasing fight against the U-boats across the biggest battlefront of all.
Things have been moving rapidly since my last Atlantic trip with a destroyer in De- ceniber.
Outstanding are these facts- gathered with our Northern patrols and later with the from the vital Convoys
Americas,
British escort forces out there to-day are steadily being strengthened,
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Ships may still be torpedoed al times. But the chances of convoys getting through are better than they were at the beginning of the winter.
There are several develop. ments which, if even hinted at, would be of vital value to the enemy.
The ships of this particular convoy had their holds stacked with foodstuffs-and-war-sup--
from plies and planes America.
Not C ship Was lost But throughout the run. there is a crippled U-boat A out there somewhere. corvette did that one of the toughest, little warships in the world.
I am the first Naval Corres. pondent to sail in these new anti-submarine ships, testing their endurance and fighting efficiency in Northern bliz- zards, howling gales, and head-on to the Atlantic rollers.
Rushed To Sea
These long-funnelled, whale- catcher type of warshipa, smaller than destroyers, were the answer to Britain's prayer when the Atlantic outlook was blackest, when France had caved in and we had to fight · alone.
There was no time to build destroyers to beat the new in- tensive U-boat Blitz..
So crisis decisions taken.
were
Many alipways must be used to rush out corvettes. Organ- isation between builders and sub-contractors must be such that mass production methods could be used. Corvettes must be rushed out to sen on chain-belt principles.
And to-day you find.corvette groups operating alongside the destroyers and sloops with the convoys.
Their advantages are these: (1.) They can fight U-boats
in the foulest weather.
(2.) They can be built rea- sonably quickly-I look for ward to the time when, from single slipway, one corvetto
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can be put to sea every month. Shipyards in the Dominions as well as at home are building them!
(3.) A corvette costs only fraction of the cost of a des- troyer. Numbers count in screening a convoy from U- bonts, so the cost of escort craft comes down:
(4.) The range of these tiny warships is a secret, but they
fre
fitted with the same oficient anti-submarine gear as the crack destroyers. And submarine protection has been recently further improved;
(5.) While not
fast as destroyers, they are fast enough to pursue the U-boats. and that's all the speed they need for the job for which they are being built,
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(6.) They need only 50 men a third of a ship's company. of a destroyer.
(7) A corvette is in herself only a tiny target, whether she is being attacked from the air or on, or under, the sea.
"Lively" Ships
1 see no reason why we should not have two or three hundreds of these corvette unti - submarine warships sooner than most people might think. That number would be-a-first-class-insurance- against U-boats.
They are lively in seaway. The men who sail in them
1781
suffer discomfort in even the slightest swell.
And when they are battling through the winter gales, their broad beams roll with the sickening movement of a fat goldfish flicking its tall to jerk over on its side when somebody bangs its bowl.
I have sailed more than 25,000 miles covering the war at sea, mainly in destroyers, but I've never known anything like the roll you get in these corvettes.
"Hand-Picked"
The corvetle men have been hand-picked for their endurance. And, when they prove they can take it, they say they wouldn't change. They are proud of their task.
They had to be on this trip, what with gules and blizzards, squalls and storms, and three days living on hard tack.
They certainly carn their "hard- lying money."..Outside the sub- marines there isn't a tougher Job afloat.
Commanding officer of the cor- vette in which 1 sailed is an R.N. commander who likes being a small ship man while his son is in the biggest warship of all-the Hood.
The first lleutenant was a luxury liner officer in peacetime. He was R.NR, and found himself in the doomed armed merchant cruiser Patroclus. He clung to a tiny rufl for seven and a half hours before a destroyer picked him up.
The navigator has been seven times round the world in tramp ships. He is only 27 now. The sub-leutenant (R.N.V.R.) is a 21- year-old baronet.
Down on the mess deek they yarn. about their adventures earlier in _the_war_Most of them have been. "over the side." Most of them have had their baptism of fire at sen.
I'd back these corvette mer: in a fight against any U-boat.
The term "corvette" now being used to de-. signate the new Navy convoy bqat was originally applied to a vessel of burden... It was a flush- deck vessel, barque rigged, with one tier of guns either on the upper or main deck.
The corvette of 1781 was, in addition to its specified dutics, made to do the odd jobs., It had, for instance, to do convoy work, to look for smugglers and chasc privateers.
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The only relationship the patrol corvette of 1041 bears to the corvette of 1781 is that it, too, has to do the odd jobs. Its design is based on that of whale catchers in the Antarctic-it will do the same work in the wintry North Atlantic as the destroyers of the con voy escorts. The corvette carries a supply of depth charges, and its complement generally consists of three officers and about: saty ratings. It has already proved successful against the U-boats..
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Eugenics League
More Money Needed
Continued progress was mado by the Hongkong Eugenics League dur- ing the past year, according to the Afth annual report, which will be presented at the yearly meeting to be held at the Gloucester Hotel on Thursday at 5.15 n.m
The
report, signed by Mrs Selwyn- Clarke, Hon. Secretary, states in part;
The number of patients has in- creased in all the Clinics by nearly 100 per cent, and the improvement in the numbers of those returning for re-examination has been maintained.
Home Folley Followed
The League in co-operation with the Medical Department is pursuing the same polley advocated by the Ministry of Health in Great Britain. Health Centres have been established
mothers where
can attend ante-natal
เ clinics; after the birth of the baby, they return to the Centre for advice on Infant welfare and Gynaecological Clinics for post-natal
tal care have been arranged which include advice on: family planning, that is, how to space children for the sake of the health and the well-being of the family. An Increase in this service is urgently needed.
The League has been successful in obtaining regular supplies of appli- unces from New York; but unless There is increased financial support during the next year, the League will be forced to discontinue this help to poor patients.
The League has been able to res pond to requests for appliances from Shanghai, Kweiyang, Hainan and other centres. Assistance has also been given to mothers proceeding to the interior.
Social Welfare Worker
The Executive Committee has re- tuined the services of a social veffure
assists worker, who
in the four Clinics and pays home visits to the mothers who attend the Clinics. The Committee considers that this follow- up work is of the greatest
Importance and therefore is most anxious to since worker engage a second welfare It is impossible for one worker to follow up the cases of all four, Clinics. The educational work of the League -is-limited through the lack-of-com of Chinese
educated operation women, who, with their knowledge of the
customs language
and problems of patients could talk with them on the advantages of family planning
for more effectively than European women. The League wishes to form a Conmmittee of Chi- nese voluntary helpers to take over the publicity and educational work of the League.
Referring to parents who are un- able to give their children sufficiently good feeding from birth and unable to play their full part in the com- munity, the report states that this is, self-evident in Hongkong where starvation discases such as Berl-ber), Pellagra and Tuberculosis are on the increase and where education is only available to a very small proportion of the
population.
the
Hon.
The Commitice therefore hope that in the coming year they may have more active co-operation from Chi- Rese women so that the services of the League may be developed where they are most needed,
Miss Constance Lam Treasurer,
submits a report on the objectives: to prevent and League's eure. Its function is to help families, particularly of the submerged class, toplan
and
the size of their space family around their earning capacity, so that each child can have a decent chance of survival .and healthy growth, she states.
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The Director of Medical Services acknowledges gratefully the gift of $500 from the General Chinese Charities Fund Committee through the kindness of the Hon. Mr R. A. C. North, for the schools established for the children transferred from the Po Leung Kuk to the Government camps.
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