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RAIDER SCARES.

EXCITEMENT AT SEA.

MERCHANT MEN'S WORK.

(By Air). SYDNEY, September 14

Several events this week have reminded the public that the men of the merchant service, who are carrying on supply, despite mines, submarines and raiders, are really in the front line of the war. First of all there wae the news of the presumed loss of the Norwegian motor ship Tirranna (7230 tons) now nine weeks overdue between Melbourne and Mombasa, East Africa. The ship carried a Norwegian crew of 00 and 12 passengers, mostly volunteers for the Norwegian Army and Navy. Among them were Mr. Leif Bart ho, single, of Sydney, a cousin of the economic adviser to the Bank of New South Wales, Professor Hytten; Mr. Tor Haugen, a paper agent of Killara, Sydney, whose wife lives in Orange; Mr. Trond Larsen, civil engineer, of Sydney; and Lieutenant-Commander Seigmund Raemussen, of Sydney, whose wife is saia to be a New Zealander. He wae formerly an executive of the Australian Motorists' Petrol Co., Ltd.

Two other arrivals this week, who brought .reports of raider scares, were Pan-American Airways' yacht, Southern Seas, and a Canadian five-masted topsail schooner, the City of Alberni. The Southern seas ie to run between Noumea and Sydney bringing passengers by the Pacific Clipper air service. Formerly owned by an American millionaire publisher, the late Mr. S. K. Curtis, the yacht has been fitted out luxuriously to accommodate 40 passengers, most of them in roomy cabins with separate bathrooms. She had been laid up in New York for nearly 10 years, when Pan-American Airways took her over. With her dazzling white hull, clipper bow and the Pan-American coat of arms in red, white and blue- on 'her eide, ehe invited attention at eea on the passage to Sydney. Excitement was caused when a grey ship began to chase the yacht at full speed. When the ship caught up it wae seen that she wae a friendly freighter. The freighter followed the yacht for half an hour, apparently until ehe was satisfied with the yacht's identity. Driven Off Coast. The wartime demand for shipping and high insurance and freight rates were responsible for the appearance in Sydney of the City of Alberni with a cargo of hemlock, after a voyage of 83 days from Vancouver. When near Jarvie Island right out in the Pacific, a grey ship with warship lines was sighted steaming towards the schooner. The master of the schooner, Captain J. D. Vosper, fearing that the stranger might turn out to be a raider, took all the neceesary measures to abandon the ehip whose papers were placed in a weighted bag ready to be dropped overboard. Captain Voeper was much relieved when the stranger turned out to be a United States coastguard cutter.

Until the schooner wae within 10 miles of Sydney Heads the weather wae favourable. Then a howling gale hit ■her and drove her off the coast, and it took her a week to come back. Within 20 minutes, half the eails were torn to ribbons and flapping like rags around the masts, and a boom was smashed. This meant hard, work for the crew, who slaved to repair the- damage while the schooner was hove to. She wae driven out to sea again during the next few days, owing to head winds, and was driven 150 niilee off the coast.

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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 9

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RAIDER SCARES. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 9

RAIDER SCARES. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 9

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