CUFIC ARRIVES
DISTINGUISHED WAR RECORD The Shaw, Savill and Albion Company’s Cufic, making her first visit to this port, arrived at Dunedin from London and Suva yesterday. She has a distinguished record of war service. As the Samrich, operated by the British Ministry of War Transport during the war, she carried troops and supplies to the Normandy beach-head, surviving several air attacks. Even yet she has the mark of one of these attacks where a shell tore a hole in her hulL Still carrying supplies, she made several voyages to Belgium before transferring to the Pacific theatre. A Liberty ship, built at Portland, Maine, in 1943, she was purchased by the Shaw Savill Line at the end of the war »
She left London on June 10, bound for Dunedin, via Panama and Suva, and “had a pleasant voyage—one of the best I have experienced during my five years on board her,” the chief officer, Mr J. McLean, told the Daily Times last night. At Dunedin, the ship will unload 1250 tons of cargo from the United Kingdom and the Continent before sailing for Lyttelton to-morrow.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26848, 12 August 1948, Page 6
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