ENEMY RAIDER
NORTH ATLANTIC ATTACK ON CONVOY INCLUDING RANGITIKI.> OUTCOME LEFT IN DOUBT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK. November 5. The Mackay radio received three distress .messages in three hours, indicating that a raider was attacking a British convoy, including the Rangitiki and the Cornish City. A message at 9.30 a.m. New Zealand time /m Wednesday said that the convoy was still being attacked in latitude 52 degrees 45 minutes north and longitude 32 degrees 13 minutes west.
The Rangitiki is one of the bestknown liners in the New Zealand trade. The first of the three “Rangif motor-liners built in 1928-29 for the New Zealand Shipping Company, Ltd., the Rangitiki bears the name of one of the first four sailing-ships acquired by the company after its foundation in 1873. She is a twin-screw motor-ship of 16,698 tons gross register. OFFICIAL STATEMENT NO CHILDREN ON RANGITIKI. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. November 6. It is officially stated that the Rangitiki, which according to American reports was shelled in the North Atlantic, was not carrying children under the overseas reception scheme.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1940, Page 6
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