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- W3125363957 abstract "Interview with Darcy Hoffman who was born in 1924 in Gore son of farming parents. Explains paternal grandparents who were German arrived in New Zealand in 1872, settling in Southland and working for railways, putting in the Dunedin to Invercargill line. Mentions schooling in Mandeville, Gore and Invercargill technical high school. Also mentions joinery apprenticeship before going to sea in 1942. Explains he was deck boy on the Blue Star ship Canadian Star carrying frozen meat to England. Describes ship and crew. Mentions pay and duties, including gun training.Talks about later trip leaving New York in a nine-knot convoy when a submarine torpedoed the ship killing sailors and civilian passengers. Describes abandoning ship and floating on a raft for hours until pickup by the corvette Anemone. Notes the heaviness of kapok lifejackets. Talks about conditions of the Anemone: accomodation, food and clothes. Mentions survivors leave then returning to sea.Discusses working on other ships as able seaman; he sailed on Fort Louisbourg to West Africa when contracted malaria. Explains acquiring pet monkey that had to be destroyed before berthing in India. Mentions Empire Tamar breaking down and joining American built Ocean Faith. Explains promoted bosun with better pay and accomodation. Mentions ship taking barges for Anzio landing and carrying American and French troops for Southern France landing. Recalls German air attacks and operating the Oerlikon gun. Mentions being in Gibraltar on VE Day and but confined to ship in Montreal on VJ Day. Talks about joining merchant aircraft carrier Empire McKendrick carrying grain. Also mentions ammunition ship Mapleton and collecting the Salzburg from Hamburg.Talks about boxing when in England and Scotland but having to change his name then to Jim Gordon. Mentions Invercargill boxing school and continuing to box until 1949. Explains delayed repatriation; he worked for Hall brothers in Aberdeen meanwhile. Discusses return to New Zealand in 1946, finishing his apprenticeship and setting up his own building business in Dunedin for 28 years. Mentions marrying in 1950. Interviewer(s) - Neill Atkinson Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 transcript(s). 58 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - transcript(s) available OHA-5407." @default.
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