SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16963, 27 March 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN

ANOTHER LINER SUNK.

ROTORUA TORPEDOED.

ONE LIFE LOST.

(Pkk Unitsd Prbss Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. Tho manager of the Now Zealand Shipping Company has received a cablegram stating that the Rotorua, after landing all her passengere at Plymouth, was proceeding up tho Channel when she- was torpedoed. The ship was lost. Captain Sutcliffe and all the crew were saved, with the exception of ono cook. PRISONERS IN GERMANY. OTAKI'S OFFICERS. v CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. > The- Now Zealand Shipping Company supplies tho following list of tho .Otaki's ofheers who are now prisoners in Germany: Commander, Captain L. G. Silba; chief officer, Mr P. M. M'Leod; second, "Mr L. H. Woods; third, Mr E. F. Pattenden; fourth, Mr R. Angell; chief engineer, Mr Gγ. W. Wilson; second-" Mr W A. Thomson; third, Mr A. H. Littlo; fourth, Mr H. Somerville; fifth, Mr J. Clyne; sixth, Mr L. Smart; refrigerating engineer, Mr W. Legall; second refrigerating engineer, Mr C. S. Lancaster; chief steward Mr J. Willis; midshipman, Mr B. L. Kilncr

Sir James Mills and Mr F. R. Manning and daughter wero passengers to England from New Zealand by the Rotorua.Amongst her other cargo, the Rotorua took 6669 crates of cheese from Bluff and 2615 crates from Lyttelton. She also carried 2716 boxes of butter from Lyttelton and 300 boxes from Dunedin.

j-lie Rotorua was a large triple- screw steamer of 11,140 tons. She was built in 1910 by Messrs Denny Br6thers, of Dumbarton. Her length was 484 ft 2in, her breadth 62ft_ 3in, and her depth '41ft lin. From the time of her completion she was engaged in the oversea trade between England and ' New Zealand. She left the dominion about the beginning of February, and after landing her passengers at Plymouth was on her way to London to discharge her cargo. She had practically completed her sixteenth round voyage. Captain J. A. Sutcliffe had charge of the vessel from tho time that she made her first voyage. Tho Rotorua was at Port Chalmers in January discharging and taking in cargo, and left this port on January 20 for Lyttelton. and Wellington. She sailed for her destination from the last-mentioned port. She was a sister ship to the Remuera and tho Ruahino, and, like these ships, was elaborately furnished throughout. The manager of one of the leading- Dunodin mercantile- houses stated' yesterday that ho considered that the Rotorua carried the most valuable cargo of produce from New Zealand of any of the boats sailing Irom here which have been destroyed by tho Gormans. These' boats arc the Kaipara, Ashburton, Otaki, Surrey, Tokomaru .Port Nicholson, arid Rotorua.