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JAPANESE SUBMARINE SUNK BY TONGARIRO I LINER’S GUNNERS SCORE DIRECT HIT. HEAVY EXPLOSION HEARD LATER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, June 27. The liner Tongariro, proceeding to Britain laden with meat and wool, sank a large Japanese submarine which she discovered chasing her on the surface. The Tongariro’s fourth shot directly hit the submarine,, which disappeared amid a cloud of smoke. The whole action, in which the submarine fired two shots which both missed, lasted only ten minutes. Half an hour after the submarine disappeared, a heavy explosion was heard and felt aboard the Tongariro. This, it is believed, marked the end of the submarine. The Tongariro, of 9878 tons, was built in 1925 by W. Hamilton and Co., Ltd.. Glasgow. Before the war, she was one of the best-known traders in the regular service between New Zealand and. the United Kingdom for the New Zealand Shipping Co.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1942, Page 3
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