Show BRITONS BOARD OLD DESTROYERS AN EASTERN CANADIAN PORT Sept 6 UP Three UP-Three Three of 50 United States destroyers traded to Great Britain for naval bases arrived here Friday BOSTON Sept 6 0 British JP-British P British crews were reported Friday as already having taken over some of the 50 destroyers traded this week by the United States to Great Britain in exchange for forI I naval and air bases On the heels of Prime Minister Churchill's statement Thursday that British crews already are meeting the destroyers at vanous various various vari van ous ports unofficial American sources expressed belief that one or more of the transfers had been made at sea Boarded at Sea Their report ble said the American crew or crews after meeting English vessels at sea had boarded the United States destroyer tender Denebola I which steamed out of Boston harbor harbor harhon har har- I bor hon at dusk Wednesday a short distance behind the first three of I the over-age over destroyers to leave I While navy officers continued their silence concerning movements movements movements move move- ments of the vessels it was I learned unofficially that six more of the stackers four-stackers had departed depart depart- ed Thursday First Units Depart The unofficial sources named them as the Goldsborough Herndon Herndon Hern- Hern don Welles Welborn C. C Wood and Buchanan The I first three to go were reported to have been the Hale Upshur and Ward I Meanwhile three more vessels arrived at the Boston navy yard which appears to be the take-off take point for the vessels They were reported as the Mackenzie Abbot and Thomas |