Navy ships are picking up some people from beaches, firefighters are escorting convoys of evacuees down roads.

海军舰艇搭救了海滩上的一些民众，消防员则护送撤离人员的车队沿着道路前进。

When the second world war broke out that same year, he sailed to Colombo and joined a lumbering battleship escorting convoys of Australian troopships bound for Egypt.

同年，当第二次世界大战爆发时，他航行到了科伦坡，并登上了一艘护送澳大利亚舰队前往埃及的庞大战舰。