Hop, Hop, Hop, Hooray!
A boom was stretched across the harbour, one of our own officers and a sergeant were landed here owing to illness, they were taken off in the hospital pinnace. When...
Royal Harbour
We entered and moored in Royal Harbour, no sooner than we were made fast to two buoys, we were surrounded by natives in bum boats ladened with different things for...
Steaming for Valletta
As daylight is dawning we can see the outline of Malta. During the night we had drifted west several miles, from Valetta. Reveille, then relieve the last guard at 6a.m.,...
Search Lights at Malta
About 8.30pm we started to see a flashlight on the horizon, when we had travelled further we found out that it was the search lights at Malta. Then lights out,...