Further Details Of Awatea’s Sinking
SYDNEY, This Day. The Awatea was sunk by bombs and torpedoes off the North African coast on November 10, two days after the Allied landings. This information has been released here.
The message from New Zealand announcing the loss of the vessel did not reveal where the sinking occurred. Commandos. which the ship had brought from Scotland, had already been disembarked and all members of the crew were saved. A member of the crew states that waves of planes made four attacks on the Awatea daily for three successive days during her trip from Algiers to Beugie. The vessel travelled only at night and attacks were made while she waited during the day. Finally, as the Awatea was leaving Bougie in a convoy, 14 German and Italian planes attacked her. Six. bombs scored direct hits and aerial torpedoes struck each side of the engine-room. The Awatea was run on to a sand-bank and the crew taken off. Later the ship slipped off the bank into deep water and sank.
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Northern Advocate, 9 April 1943, Page 3
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