Merchant Navy Adventures

Of Fiji Resident

TWICE torpedoed and once bombed out of his ship is the record of Mr.

Douglas Goodfellow, now of the Mer chant Navy, formerly of Fiji. On one occasion he spent 14 days in an open boat without clothes and on a daily ration of one biscuit, a small square of chocolate and one ounce of water. The chief en gineer of the vessel died after they •reached shore, and the mate became in sane while they were drifting.

On another occasion, Mr. Goodfellow and his shipmates were clinging to an over-turned lifeboat when the German submarine that had sunk their ship, sur faced beside them. The sub’s crew turned the lifeboat over, enabling the sailors to crawl into it. The Germans said that they could not give them food because they themselves were short of supplies and on their way back to then base; but they did give them some cigar ettes.

“Doug” Goodfellow was in the invasion of Sicily and, later, in landings on the Italian coast. When the Normandy in vasion took place, his ,ship was a week out from Liverpool.

Mr. W. G. Johnson, of Suva, was appointed a member of the Imports, Exports and Foreign Exchange Control Advisory Committee of Fiji, in October.