The epoch-shaping voyage of the SS Duchess of Richmond definitely ended in Halifax Nova Scotia sometime in the first week of September 1940, but I have seen the date given confidently as either the 5th, 6th and 7th of that month.
(The date as being the 6th is from the Official Chronology of the US Navy and it gives a convincing amount of detail to support this claim.)
Among them, that Winston Churchill himself remarked on the strange coincidence that the first US destroyers and the Duchess of Richmond carrying the British sailors destined to man them arrived the same day in Halifax.
One of those first vessels, the USS Buchanan - HMS Campbeltown , later became famous for successfully ramming and blowing up the drydock at St Nazaire.
The cavity magnetron that made microwave radar work was not the only interesting cargo the Duchess of Richmond transported to Halifax during the WWII period.
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