VESSEL ESCAPES
GERMANS OUTWITTED The 1864-ton Polish steamer Kroman has arrived in a British port after escaping from Dakar, French port in Senegal, under the very noses of Germans who had arrived to seize her. The Kroman had been immobilised by the removal of a vital part of her machinery, the Admiralty said, but the captain made a makeshift replacement and steamed out of the harbour after learning of the arrival of the Germans by air. “By improvisation and engineering skill the engines of the Kroman were made to work,” an Admiralty communique said. “She then escaped through the harbour defences and on reaching the open sea set her course for a British port. “All of this was accomplished although there were no charts on board.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21226, 24 September 1940, Page 9
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126VESSEL ESCAPES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21226, 24 September 1940, Page 9
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