LEANDER ASSISTS IN CAPTURE
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 11. The Admiralty has informed the New Zealand Government that the Australian cruiser Canberra (Captain H. B. Famcomb, M.V.0., R.A.N.), and the New Zealand cruiser Leander (Captain R. H. Bevan, RJf.), have intercepted in the Indian Ocean a German merchant vessel and a Norwegian tanker which had been captured by a German raider. The German merchant ship, which had been acting as a supply ship for the raider, was the Coburg (7400 tons) and the tanker the Ketty Brovig (7031 tons). Eighteen German officers and 47 German ratings were captured and are now prisoners of war. The rescued included a number of Norwegians and Chinese.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21960, 12 May 1941, Page 5
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