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Description
Mr. Boicey describes being held back from boarding HMCS Ville Du Quebec, because a mistake had been made in his paperwork. Shortly thereafter she was sunk.
Transcription
That was a streak of luck. I was posted to the Ville de Québec and just as I was preparing to go up the gangway on board with my hammock and kit, a jeep driven by a WREN, pulled up in the jetty and said, “Don’t go aboard, you are required back at the field school in Halifax right away!” I didn’t qualify for a torpedo man when I was posted to the ship but when the nurse, the WREN took me back to the torpedo school, I was told they were very sorry but they didn’t include one phase of my course’s marks, therefore, it was indicated I had failed but I really hadn’t failed, I had passed the course. I was going aboard the Ville De Québec as an ordinary seaman and being a torpedo man then, I wasn’t required. I believe shortly after that the Ville De Québec got sunk.