Function To Mark Ship’s Last Voyage
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, April 29. Ships had characters and personalities and the 12,090-ton freighter Hororata possessed undefeatable and dour qualities, her former master, Captain F. S. Hamilton, told a function today to commemorate the ship’s last voyage.
After loading at various New Zealand ports the Hororata will go to Britain in June where she will be either sold or broken up. Captain Hamilton was master of the Hororata from the time she was built in 1942 until 1949. During the war she made seven voyages to Bri tain from New Zealand, mostly unescorted. On her second voyage she
was badly holed in a German submarine attack in the North Atlantic. With a hole 32ft by 47ft in her side she limped to Santa Cruz and then made | her way to Horta. 150 miles ; away, where makeshift reI pairs were made under the of Captain Hamilton. The present captain of the Hororata, Captain D. E. Moran, presented Captain Hamilton with an aeroplane propeller than has hung in the officer’s lounge since 1944.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31047, 30 April 1966, Page 16
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