CITY OF FLINT
ARRIVAL AT BALTIMORE.
ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE RECALLED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, January 27.
The City of Flint has arrived at Baltimore, ending her 113 days’ adventure. The captain, Mr Gainard, said that the ship’s company was anxious to fight the prize crew and without restraint there would have been plenty of trouble and probably no City of Flint. The German officer told the Stonegate’s crew to obey Mr Gainard or be killed. [The American steamer City of Flint was stopped by Germans in the Atlantic and a prize crew put on board, together with prisoners from the British steamer Stonegate. The ship was then taken to the Russian port of Murmansk away from the attentions of the Allied navies. After a delay and sharp demands to Russia from Washington the City of Flint left, still under German control. She ran the gauntlet of British warships, keeping to Scandinavian territorial waters, till she took refuge in a Norwegian port. Sne failed to leave there in the stipulated lime and the Norwegian authorities took action, placing the American personnel back in control and thus releasing the Stonegate's men.]
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1940, Page 5
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