GERMAN SHIPS SHELTER IN NEUTRAL PORT. —Passengers on the Netherlands liner Columbia took to New York this photograph of eight German ships tied up in Curacao, where they sought shelter when war broke out. The ships are from left: The Nordmeer, which sailed after the picture was taken; the Patricia, Vancouver, Este, Seattle, Hanover, Wesermiende and Alemannia. They had 900 men in their crews, whose younger members wanted to got back to Germany to fight, but whose older members were content to be out of it.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 6
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86GERMAN SHIPS SHELTER IN NEUTRAL PORT.—Passengers on the Netherlands liner Columbia took to New York this photograph of eight German ships tied up in Curacao, where they sought shelter when war broke out. The ships are from left: The Nordmeer, which sailed after the picture was taken; the Patricia, Vancouver, Este, Seattle, Hanover, Wesermiende and Alemannia. They had 900 men in their crews, whose younger members wanted to got back to Germany to fight, but whose older members were content to be out of it. Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 6
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