sentences:  She arrived there on the first anniversary of the Japanese sneak attack and remained for three weeks.On 28 December, she got underway for Suva Island, Fiji, where she stopped from 7 to 12 January 1943, before heading on to the Allied base at Nouméa, New Caledonia.After a trip to Efate in the New Hebrides and back, from 17 to 27 January 1943, she departed Nouméa to join the escort of the first of many convoys, this one bound for Espiritu Santo.