ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author serves on the convoy run between Trinidad and Recife, just around the bulge of Brazil; and as a first step they were ordered to report to the naval base at Trinidad. In his experience the Caribbean had been more apt to provide a strong trade wind, a sharp chop, and a smoky haze, like a "smoky southwester" in Buzzards Bay. At the naval station at Chaguaramas in Trinidad, which he had visited earlier in YMS 59, reported for duty as an escort of the next convoy bound southeast for Recife. At Recife the Brazilian navy took over the convoy and dispersed its ships to ports in southern Brazil. Besides other duties, such as patrolling the gap between South America and Africa against the passage of German surface raiders, the Fourth Fleet was in charge of the convoy run back and forth between Trinidad and Recife.
