Safe Return
Ship’s log
P&O liner SS Chusan
Yokohama to London
11:00 hrs 4th April 1954
At sea
Heaved to 1 mile SE of Valetta
Wind NW force 4
Cloud and sun
Visibility good
60 ͦ
Stowaway
Found in hold
Naresh Choudhury (?) age 16 (?)
Came on board with cargo
Cotton and jute
Bombay March 20th 1954
Crew of ship’s cutter
Transferred stowaway
To P&O liner SS Canton
Southampton to Singapore
Via Suez Aden Bombay
Columbo Penang
Stowaway received by
Petty Officer and Bosun
SS Canton
Taken into custody
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Chris Hardy’s poems have been widely published. His collection ‘Key to the Highway’ appeared from Shoestring Press in summer, 2021. He is in LiTTLe MACHiNe. “A guitarist as well as a poet Chris always hits the right note”. Roger McGough.
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