Status - John Skinner - USS Daly:
USS Daly (DD-519) - Argentia, Newfoundland
June 10th: In port all day.
June 11th: In port all day.
June 12th: In port all day. One sailor convicted for absence over leave and missing ship departure; dishonorably discharged from the Navy.
June 13th: At sea, 10 AM to 3 PM, otherwise in port. Fueling began late in the evening.
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Argentia was one of the ports that were leased to the US under the bases-for-destroyers agreement with Great Britain. Newfoundland had previously had self-rule (Dominion status) in the British Empire, starting in 1907, but the Great Depression had crippled the Newfoundland economy and Newfoundland returned to colonial rule in return for financial help. The base at Argentia was therefore on loan from Britain. Newfoundland would join Canada in 1949.
The base was mainly concerned with escorting convoys to the Mid-Ocean Meeting Point, where the British Navy took convoy escort for the rest of the voyage. Losses of shipping were very large early in the war, and convoy protection tactics only slowly got better.
More Information:
- Official Navy Chronology, pp. 346-348.
- Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 22-52.
- Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier, Samuel Eliot Morison, pp. 120-140.
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