GERMAN SHIPS IN N.Z. WATERS
.Further details of the escape of the German steamer Erlangen, which left Dunedin about a week before ' the declaration of war, and subsequently berthed at a Chilean port on November 12, are contained in a * description of the voyage which appeared in the Hamburger Tageblatt. ] When war broke out the Erlangen, "which was proceeding to an A us t ra ~ , lian port to bunker, put about and steamed without lights to an unin-, [habited island with a good anchor- < age,, where stores for shipwrecked mrariners were found ashore. As the Jitinkers were almost empty, the crew felled trees, and in the space of a month filled every available ] space of the vessel with 400 tons of firewood. Using this and all the "wooden fittings of the vessel, in«luding flooring and hatch covers, and assisted at times by improvised sails, the vessel travelled a long and round-about course Avhich included 3319 miles Under steam and 1507 miles under sail, ending five -weeks later in a neutral This was the episode about which so> many rumours, were current in Irivercargill and Bluff.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 6
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185GERMAN SHIPS IN N.Z. WATERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 184, 10 July 1940, Page 6
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