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W-k ' 1 ■■l '• Ranoitane sunk bv ... . . o •! ; enemy 40 years ago
' Forty years ago today, just two dajs after German raiders had isun’s the Holm Siiippiuj Compa'ny’s Holnw'oad off the Chatham: Islands, the New Zealand Shippr.: Company’s 16.737-ton Rangitane suffered »n even worse ■ fate at the hands of the same three raiders. t The Kangitane left her berth • Auckland on November 24, 1940, 'with a full earso of dairy predace, meat, and woo! bound for ■ Britain. She anchored for the nlCht in Kansitoto Channel and (sailed at day break the following ■ day. About 3.40 a.m. on N’ovembe: 27 the Kansitane was about ■ 330 miles east of East Cape when ■ the three German merchant (raiders Komet. Orion, and Kul- , merland were sighted. ; Even after the Rangitane hadi stopped, the Germans continued! them attack and stopped firing; only after they had been told! that there were women aboard.; The Rangitane carried a crew of about 20v and 111 passenfers, of 'whom 36 were women. I The Ransitane was badly dam>>aged and on fire on al! decks. ■ Those aboard were transferred ’-to the raiders and a German boarding party opened the vessel's seacocks but the U-year. o'.d Ransitane wculd not sink. ’ ■ The German raiders then fired !:several salvoes of shells and a /number of torpedoes and about . four hours after the attack had i (started the Rangitane went down ■ in about 5000 m of water. ARRIVALS I Coastal Trader (6.54 a.mJ, 2500/ (Dunedin tS.C.NZJ. DEPARTURES (Coastal Trader f 1.7 p.m), 2500,1 ([Auckland (S.C.N.Z.). | ; Manama (8 p.m.l, 4510, Tauranga; ’’i EXPECTED ARRIVALS | . Willowbank, New Plymouth, to-'; . | morrow. iVlshva Sandesh. Timaru, tomor-; !! row. iForunt New Zealand, Auckland,:; I November 29. j; Dorit Skou. Dunedin. November!. I . 29. J
Encounter Bay. Wellinxtoa, N’«m vember SO. Coastal Trader, Auckland, Dej ember 1. Union Lyttelton. Wellington. De-. ■ cember 3 -i WelHnr.cn Star. Auckland. December 2. Coastal Trader, Dunedin, Decern--ber 3. Kaneoka Mani, Auckland, De. comber 4. Union L.vttelton, Dunedin, De- . ember 4. . r Strathmuir. Auckland. December 6. Tunisian Reefer, Bluff, December 6. Union Lyttelton, Wellington. De. cember 6. Heroj Piac, Dunedin. December 8. t ■ Coastal Trader, Auckland, De1 cember 8. , Nedlloyd Franklin, Auckland. December 8. ■Austral Purttana, Melbourne, De-' cember 8, PROJECTED DEPARTURES Samoan Reefer. Ttmaru, today, ' Holmdale, Chatham Islands, today. Willowbank, Acajulta. tomorrow. Forum New Zealand. Napier, November 29, Coastal Trader, Dunedin, December 1. Anona, Napier, December J. Union Lyttelton, Dunedtn, December 3, Wellington Star, Suva, Decamber 2. .Vlshva Sandesh, Napier, December 2. [Coastal Trader, Auckland, December 3. Union Lyttelton, Wellington. Da- ! cember 4, (Dorit Skou, Napier. December 4. Union Lyttelton. Wellington, December 7. (Coastal Trader, Dunedin, December 8. . Strathmuir, Asia, December s, Austral Puritan, Wellington, December 8. VESSELS IN PORT Samoan Keefer, Cashln Quay No, Anona. No. 3 West, , Holmdale. No. 7 East,
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