Canberra (CAG 2) - Naval Cruise Book

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ATLANTIC CROSSING February 7- 19 We spent 10 days in crossing, for we were in com- pany with several ships - our first opportunity to operate in formation with the SHANGRI-LA and the destroyer screen, an association which would later be known as The Gold Group. On 10 February we received word that the Turkish merchant vessel, Mehmet lpar, was in need of medi- cal assistance. With no doctor aboard, her Chief lVlate, Kamil Atay, was in grave danger, running a tem- perature of 106 degrees. CANBERRA altered course immediately and raced 180 miles at flank speed to the rescue. Doctor Polesky rapidly diagnosed the illness as lobar pneumonia, and lVlr. Atay was trans. ferred to CANBERRA where he speedily recovered.

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