Documents Relating to New Zealand's Participation in the Second World War 1939–45: Volume I
226 — The Australian Commonwealth Naval Board to the Admiralty
226
The Australian Commonwealth Naval Board to the Admiralty
5 August 1940
Repeated to the New Zealand Naval Board.
My earlier telegram of 5 August, paragraph 4. The proposed ocean escorts are as follows:
Fast convoy US 4: Tasman Sea— Achilles and/or Perth 1 as arranged between the Australian Commonwealth Naval Board and the New Zealand Naval Board. From Bass Strait onward to Colombo— Canberra only.
Slow convoy US 5: Sydney to the vicinity of Cocos Islands— Perth. From the vicinity of Cocos Islands onward— Canberra.
The need for increased protection in the Indian Ocean may be indicated by later intelligence.
1 HMAS Perth, late Amphion, 6-inch cruiser, 7100 tons; sunk in night action near entrance to Sunda Strait, 28 Feb 1942.