ANOTHER LINER SUNK.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16229, 27 March 1917, Page 7

ANOTHER LINER SUNK.

THE S.S. ROTORUA: . IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. (Per Press Association.) CHMSTCmjIICH, March 2G. The manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company has received a cablegram stating that the steamer Rotorua landed ail her passengers at Plymouth and while she was proceeding up the English Channel she was torpedoed- . Captain Sutcliffe and all the crow were saved, with the exception of one 'cook. T"he Rotorua. was a triple sci'ew steel steamer df 11,130 tons gross, 7094 jtons net. She was built in 1910 by Denny Bros., Dumbarton, and her dimensions were: Length 454.2 feet, width 62 3 feet, depth 41.1 feet. She left AYel-' lington for London on January 25 with a cargo of frozen, meat and produce, and had on board a number of passengers, who included a fair proportion of women and children. The Rotorua was well known in New Zealand waters, and her last trip was her sixteenth between New Zealand and England. Her last visit to Timaru was on August 11, 1916, and she sailed from here on August 13, 1916. THE OTAJKI OFFICERS. PRISONERS IN GERMANY. The Neiv: Zealand Shipping .Company suppaes the following list of the Otaki's officers, who are now. prisoners in Germany Commander, Captain L. G. Silba.; chief officer, P. M. MeLeod;. second, L. H. Woods; third, E- Eg Pattenden; fourth, it. Angell;- chiefs engineer, P. W. Wilson, second, W;.A. Thomson; third, A. H. Little;, fourth,, H. Somerville; fifth, J. Clyne; sixth, L. Smart; refrigerating engineer, W. "Legall; second, C. S Lancaster; chief steward, F. J. .Willis; man, R. L. "Kilnor. -±.