LINER ROTORUA
Sunk By Torpedo Oil Britain
WELLINGTON MEN CASUALTIES
Advice from London has been permitted of the sinking of the Rotorua, 10,890-ton passenger liner of the New Zealand Shipping Company. The Rotorua was torpedoed by an enemy submarine near Britain in December. The commander, Captain Kemp, aged 49, and his officers went down with the ship, and others who were last seen on board the liner as she sank were A. McQueen, Kilbirnie, and E. Clai’ter, Lyall Bay, members of the gun crew. Another Wellington member of the gun crew, C. J. B. Woods, Miramar, was picked up by the survivors in one of the lifeboats after he had swam for two hours. The survivors’ lifeboats were spotted by a Royal Air Force flying-boat and were landed in Britain from trawlers.
The Rotorua was formerly the Shropshire, sister-ship of the Wiltshire. She was launched on the Clyde in 1911.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 139, 8 March 1941, Page 12
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