0 Old U. S. Destroyers Now Doing Good Job AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT American destroyers traded to Britain last fall are doing an excellent excel-lent job in the battle of the Atlantic, Atlan-tic, according to an English sublieutenant sub-lieutenant who has served aboard them. "You come across them off the English coast all the time," he said. "They're doing a grand job of patrolling pa-trolling for subs and raiders. "I came to Canada toward t.h J of ' -." I .5 .. coi. . c luuk one of the 'Yankees' back two weeks later, and I must say I found it very good. "They did a quick job on her as soon as we got her to an English port," he said. "For one thing, we fitted her with more anti-aircraft guns. There were a few other changes as well, then we got out to sea as fast as we could. "That new ack-ack armament was a good idea. Several times in later weeks we were attacked by German planes and were able to drive them off. Those old ships are right on the job. "After we'd had her for a couple of months, our destroyer was taken over by a complete Norwegian crew. The last I heard of her she was still going at it over there." Earlier, this young sub-lieutenant had sailed in a British destroyer of the "V and W" type. They are ships comparable in age to the former American vessels. "It wouldn't be quite fair to compare com-pare the British destroyer I was in with the 'Yankee,' " he said. "This particular British ship had been supplied sup-plied with a lot of the latest equipment equip-ment for experimental purposes. "But as far as accommodations go, you couldn't want anything better bet-ter than the American ship had."