LUXURY YACHT
ADVENTUROUS TRIP FROM FRANCE. Just before the French armistice, Mr William Carmichael, aged 36, master of the £60,000 luxury yacht, Sister Anne, was ordered by the authorities at Cannes, off which he was anchored, to scuttle. Mr Carmichael replied: “My duty is to my owner and country. I’ll get back to England.” After 23 .'lays’ battling in the Atlantic to keep up with a British convoy and after meeting with enemy bombers and submarines the Sister Anne arrived at a British port with 32 “Riviera refugees,” says the “Daily Mail.” The Sister Anne (154 tons) normally accommodated six passengers and a crew of eight. With a British film director acting as purser and with a bank manager and a travel agent as the crew, the Sister Anne brought home 32 men, women and children.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 7
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