My Grandfathers "Line Crossing Certificate". Aboard the USS Mount Vernon, bound for New Caledonia, December 1942. Interesting enough, he recalled that while leaving a harbor, I presume was south of the equator (don't know which one), still en-route to New Caledonia, another transport was anxious to get underway. The ship left harbor without the guidance of the harbor master and subsequently hit a mine and sunk.