RAIDERS’ VICTIMS
Interned In France
NEWS OF MAIMOA’S CREW Captain Cox ;ind the officers and crew of the steamer Maimoa are safe and believed to be interned in France, according to cabled advice received by Mr. E. V. Bevan. New Zealand manager of the Shaw, Srrvilt and Albion Company Ltd.
The Maimoa, a steamer of 10,123 tons gross register, well known in the New Zealand trade for more than 20 years, was attacked and sunk by an enemy raider in the Indian Ocean about November 27 last year, when Homeward bound from Australia. An empty lifeboat from the Maimoa was found later by an Australian warship. The Bort Line steamers Port Brisbane and Port Wellington, both Homeward bound from Australia in November. were probably sunk by the same raider. The former vessel was attacked in (lie Indian Ocean on the night of November 21. The occupants of two of her lifeboats wore picked up by the raider. The other boat, with 27 men, escaped and was found later by tlie Australian warship. Cabled advice was received from the London office of the Port Line some time ago that about 250 memliers of the crews and several passengers of the Port Brisbane. Port Wellington and Port Hobart were in internment camps near Bordeaux, in France.
'The Port Hobart was outward bound when she was sunk in November by a raider in the Atlantic.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 190, 9 May 1941, Page 8
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232RAIDERS’ VICTIMS Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 190, 9 May 1941, Page 8
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