SUNK BY RAIDER
NEWS OF NOTOU’S CREW Noumea, March 20. News has reached New Caledonia of the crew of the French Nickel Company’s 3000-ton ship Notou, which was sunk on 16th August, 1940, by a German raider, between Sydney and Noumea. Not long ago a New Caledonian soldier on leave in Algiers recognised a man he had last seen on the Noumea docks. It was Emile Hamon, second engineer of. the Notou, who told a remarkable story of eight months spent on the raider after his ship was sunk. Eventually the raider got through the Allied blockade and members of the captured crew wer e landed at Bordeaux. Hamon and others were sent as prisoners to Germany, but were freed after six months. Hamon then worked for a time at La Rochelle, and eventually succeeded in getting into a ship on the African run. After a time in Dakar he managed to get to Algiers, where, following the Allied landings, he was able to join the Fighting French.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 15 April 1944, Page 3
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