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James Broomhead, Westminster Avenue, Lodge Moor, South Yorkshire writes about his time on board HMS Diadem in The Star newspaper:

"Towards the end of May 1944 we sailed from Scapa Flow in a Force 8 gale to GreenForce 8 gale to Greenock on the Firth of Clyde. We set sail thinking we were going on another Russian convoy, however some bright spark in the crew said that we weren’t going north about, but had turned south…"

http://www.thestar.co.uk/letters/Hundreds-of-ships-in-convoy.5368344.jp