Torpedoed ships
Sir, — Our continuing quest on the hapless Italian prison-ship Sebastiano Venier, Jantzen to some, (“The Press,” May 13, 1978) now at last shows she was not built on the Clyde, as widely, believed, but in Trieste, 1939-40, completed for a Dutch shipping firm, only to be commandeered by the Italians. She was torpedoed off Greece, on December 12, 1941, killing 500 desert soldiers, including 44 New Zealanders. A captive Kiwi in this ship, Spence Edge, of Onerahi, Whangarei, and I are collecting all possible memories of this, particularly of the wounded and sick; and also of a similar fatal torpedoing off Greece of another Italian ship, Nino Bixio, 8400 tons, at 3 p.m. on August 17, 1942, when 118 New Zealanders were among the 434 dead — two little-known tragedies. — Y urs, etc., JIM HENDERSON, P.O. Box 39038, Auckland West. June 5, 1978.
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