The Blue Star liner Doric Star (10.086 tons), which is reported to have been sunk in the South Atlantic by the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer. The Doric Star was taking cargo cargo from New Zealand and Australia to England, and part of her cargo consisted of 1917 bales of wool and 11 casks of tallow taken from the holds of the Port Bowen, now stranded on the Castlecliff Beach. Wanganui.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 290, 8 December 1939, Page 7
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70The Blue Star liner Doric Star (10.086 tons), which is reported to have been sunk in the South Atlantic by the German pocket-battleship Admiral Scheer. The Doric Star was taking cargo cargo from New Zealand and Australia to England, and part of her cargo consisted of 1917 bales of wool and 11 casks of tallow taken from the holds of the Port Bowen, now stranded on the Castlecliff Beach. Wanganui. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 290, 8 December 1939, Page 7
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