THE CHINA MAIL;
CEMBER 26, 1940.
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SURVIVOR'S VIVID STORY OF RAIDER
NAZI RAIDER WHICH SANK
THE
THE BRITISH FREIGHTER “PORT BRISBANE” (8,739 TONS) AND THE “MAIMOA” (8,011 TONS) IN THE INDIAN OCEAN RECENTLY HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY DESCRIBED AS A MOTORSHIP OF ABOUT 6,000 TONS.
given with a handlight by putting
his hand in front of the lamp. Mr. Dingle said. When the boat reach- ed the water, the able seaman, the storekeeper and Mr. Dingle went
down the lifelines.
With raked stem and cruiser stern, her hull is painted a light colour. She carries a squat funnel and goal-post masts, fitted with searchlights. He armament consists of torpedo tubes in the after well
They proceeded to pull clear of deck, and broadsides, believed to be of four 4-inch
the vessci. At this time the raid- is
er passed round the ship outside guns. Her outward appearance in every respect
the lifeboat, which continued to that of a modern cargo motor-ship.
pull away. When the raider cir- cled around the second Twenty-seven survivors of the Port Brisbane, thede in the boat found that she who escaped in a lifeboat under cover of darkness, was between them and the Part have been picked up by an Australian warship and landed at an Australian port. The remainder, in-picked up the crews of the other cluding a woman passenger, are prisoners on the two boats, and also sent a board- raider, and the crew of the Maimoa is also believed ing party aboard the Port Bris- to be on board the enemy ship.
When the survivors arrived in port, they told a dramatic story of their escape in a lifeboat from the Port Brisbane, of how they played "blind man's buff" with the raider as it circled the Port Brisbane, and of their eventual rescue.
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Second Officer's Story
On arrival at the port, the sec- ond officer of the Port Brisbane, gr Whitley Edward W. Dingle,
told this Bay, Newfoundland,
"My
story starts
Brisbane.
time,
"At this time, 1 take it." Mr. continued, "the raider
bane. We worked round at the raider's stern and endeavoured to keep clear of her. She went right round the Port Brisbane again and headed in our direction.
"Take Our Chance
With You"
Mr. Dingle said that he put it to the men that if they showed a light they would also probably be somewhere picked up.
I
"An Australian warship has story: arrived at an Australian port with 27 survivors of the British mer-about 9.50 p.m. last Thursday.
was keeping middle watch, and, chant ship Port Brisbane, which was sunk by an enemy raider in naturally, in bed and asleep at that hour. I was awakened by the Indian Ocean five days ago.
sounds of gunfire and the alarm to go to stations. A klaxon horn was also sounded as an additional alarm. I got out of bed and dressed as rapidly as possible, and attempted to go down the officers' alleyway towards the stern.
Survivor's Vivid
Account
"The survivors consist of the second officer, four engineer of- flcers, and 22 of the ship's crew.
of the Port "The remainder Brisbane's complement. including one woman passenger, are prison- ers in the raider.
"The Port Brisbane, which had left an Australian port some days previously, was attacked at night when in mid-ocean.
I
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The men replied: "We prefer to take our chance with you, in- Altmark stead of any of this business." He told them not on any account to show a light or
and strike matches,
to keep down in the boat. By this time, the boarding party had left the Port Brisbane and re- turned to the raider. This was followed by, a few explosions, which Mr. Dingle said he thought were time bombs.
"While I was approaching the afterdoor, the deck house was hit
"The raider circled back again,” and I was thrown in the alleyway, losing my cap, in a state of con-Mr. Dingle went on, "and, I should cussion. I went back to secure say. just before, midnight, torpe- another one. I managed to do so, doed the Port Brisbane in the No. also grasping a couple of tins of 3 hatch, and then left at a good speed. There were one or two cigarettes and my certificate. got out finally through the for showers of rain in the vicinity. of the "The enemy raider lit up her ward door, to find at least half a and, the exact departure target with searchlights, and dozen of my shipmates sheltering raider was not ascertained.". opened fire at once at a range of behind the forward bulwark,
The third "We were being blinded at the a little over a mile.
by the round wrecked the wireless room, time, I might mention, and the fourth hit the bridge and raider's searchlight, Going to the disabled the steering gear.
port side, I found my boat, No. 4,
"We rested on our oars and lay "The ship was subsequently with a number of men beside it. abandoned in three boats.
A shell had struck the ship amid-off to see the effect of the torpedo. and At 1 a.m., I thought that the Port persons in two of them were taken ship and the smoke-room prisoner aboard the raider. Those wireless house.were on fire. The Brisbane was not going to sink, in the other boat escaped detec- | raider, however, by this time had and I suggested to the men that
when daylight came we tion in the darkness.
ceased firing. subsequently """There were "The ship was
obviously more board the vessel and abandoned in three boats, The men than my boat's complement, could be done. The ship, to all persons in two of
were and I found that the forward star-appearances, had not sunk very
(Continued on: Page 9) taken prisoner aboard the rald-| board boat had been shot away.
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boat I also learnt that the last order escaped detection In the dark- the man at the whel had received he had been unable to carry out, "After the ship was abandoned, as we had been hit, apparently in the raider put a boarding party on the steering house aft, this ren- board and placed time bombs, ajdering the steering gear useless. number of which were heard to The captain had sent the bridge explode. The raider later fired a boy to bring the men up from the torpedo into the ship, and then stokehold and the engineers from tice was sent before this to the sank.
"During the course of a search wireless room.
****The wireless officer Mr, Ma- of surrounding waters made by the Australian warship, an empty gee, deserves the highest credit, lifeboat from the British mer-because I don't yet-krrow how he chant ship Maimoa was sighted managed to send the distress sig It is believed that all the crew of the Maimoa are prisoners in the |ralder;"
The survivors brought to port by the warship are:
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nal out in time. The last I saw of him was as he was being led away by the arm by the appren tice from the wireless room. For the moment 1-thought he was Int jured, but: apparently. he could not see too well because, he had lost his glasses..
Edward Wallace Dingle, second officer; Thomas. Arthur Griffith, third engineer; Wilfred Watson seventh engineer; Ernest Hewick,
Passed Round Ship second refrigerating engineer, Albert Devereux, A.B.; Owen Clarke AB; John James Beasley: "Having got my boat's aw A:B, Ola Newman Nelsen, naval sorted out and the gripes let go. gunners Frank Moran, trimmer I sent Able Seaman Clarke, for John Millington, trimmer, Henry ward for any orders. He returned, Lightfoot, trimmer Daniel Mcsaying, Mr. Dingle, as soon as yớia Evan, trimmer; · Frank Sargent; are ready." I then sent some of deck boy: Leslie Rolls, ordinary my men across to the starboard scaman; Patrick - Dunn, trimmer; boat, but they returried and tald Daniel Pedder, trimmer: William me that this boat was already Berry; assistant steward; Ernest lowered; 60, without further of“ Ryan, deck boy: Thomas Hender-ders the 24 men got into my boat, son, scaman passenger; Eric Reay, which was then lowered," la messroom afeward Patrick Mc The noise of escaping steam and Govern, greaser, Chas. Flander, burning timber at this time was so engine-room storekeeper: Thomas great that none of these meni, Cecil Lloyd, quartermaster: John though only a short distance away McPhillips, trimmer: John Powell, from him, could hear him when trimmer: @Archie Dale Walker, he shouted to, them. The boat
Port Brisbane Founders
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SURVIVOR'S VIVID STORY OF RAIDER
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far into the water, but was still on fire. At 2 am, however, the Port Brisbane foundered by the head. We had drawn closer to her, and we proceeded 19 row to the position in which she had Aunk We found two empty re- boats, in each of which I placed· three or four men The three bouts were then tied together. blew my deck pocket whistle and shouted out to ser whether could get a refily from anyone No
answer canie
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"Subsequently we came Across the starboard boat, Ahich had been shot away by the raidey's guns, two rafts, and a quantity of wreckage Among the latter, we found several cans of raw ms and mail bags. We took aboard th Boats a few of the cans of ranns and the mail bags After one of the seamen bad cut the bags opti
we found parcel with his knife
which contained small bottles of same and pickles, and a couple of Christmas puddings, bars of cho- pointe, and other small comesti 1 ༔་
"They were very acceptable considering the predicament which we found ourselves." Mr Dingle said that at 5:55 am.. 1.he daylight was breaking, he -in ateri the Pout Brisbane's novation when she was sunk :{ . neur as possible from the direction. it the course laid by the master. Captain Steele, at noon
on the
dlay The en asked i where they were Loing and My Dangle replied that they would Try and make Australia. This, he admitted, he knew was practically impossible because of the winds, currents, and other eureinstances. He tried, however, to head as far As possible towards Australia. though he estimated that they would not make much way in the boats roughly about one and a half to two miles an hour. Hu wished, however, to stay in the icity for some time, as he did bot know whether the wireless
•perator. Mr. Magee. had been able to send out his message, and t he doubled whether. under the circumstances. he had done so
we nut un sail "
"About 6 a.m
T
he continued. "At about noon Issued two small dippers-small cylindrical containers of water- and a small piece of tinned meat to each.
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LADY DILL PASSES
Lady Dill, wife of General Sir John Dill, Chief of the Imperial
General Staff, has died in London after a long illness, says a Reuter despatch.
At 7 DITI they were takin aboard.
war.
sur
space, and, it is presumed. WIN carrying frozen cargoes of food- stuffs, in addition to general car- go, mcluding wool and other pro- duets.
They were of approximately the same tonnage, and each had complement of about 70 officers and men.
The Maimoa was of 8.011 tons gross, and was built in 1920 by Palmers' Co.. Ltd., Newcastle, England. She was owned by the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Co., Ltd. She was registered at Southamp- įton, was one of the oldest ships in the Shaw Savill fleet. Her master was Captain S. H. Cox, who was well known in shipping circles in Sydney.
The gross tonnage of the Port Brisbane was 8.739. She was
on the An eye-witness
built in 1923 by Workman. Clark, ship which picked up the
und Co., Ltd., of Belfast. Ireland. vivors said that on receipt of a She was owned by the Port Line, raider warning. his ship
Pro-Ltd. ceeded to a position indicated in the Indian Ocean and found there an abandoned lifeboat bearing the name of the freigh- ter Maimoa.
"We sank this by gunțire about 8 a.m, last Friday," he said, "and proceeded to answer a call which we had received en route to the spot, that the Port Brisbane was
being she led by an enemy vessel.
"Head For Mauritius”"
At about 5.45 p.m. the lookout on "Many of the men were sick, the masthead sighted some sails probably from shock and through on the horizon. As we approach- being unused to being in smailed, they proved to be three life- boats. At 4 pm. I put it to the boats containing survivors from men that we could not reach Aus- the Port Brisbane, They were tralia and that the best thing to picked up by us and the lifeboats do was to head for Mauritius. The were sunk by gunfire." men answered that I knew best. The Port Bri-bane Nfeboats were and that whatever 1 said was lucky to have been seen. At first satisfactory to them. Thus, with only the masts were sighted. Half the three boats still tied together. an hour later, it would have been we made more or less fair wind impossible to see them. and set the course for Mauritius. The only passenger on board the I pointed out to the men exactly | Port Brisbane was a Miss Mc- what this would mean and that we | Shane, who had been on a holiday should be on exceedingly short in Australia. Mr. Dingle said that rations. even with the additional he was certain that she had been provisions secured from the.mail-picked up from one of the life- bags. We would also be short of boats by the raider. since a jump- water. I said, and told them that er was found in one of the boats. in future I meant to issue only The full complement of the Port one dipper of water ä day."
Brisbane was about 92 men,
Mr. Dingle said that somewhere about 6 pm. one of the men who 'was injured sighted something to
Well-Known Ships
wern narticularly well known in the Australiap trade. and had been operating between Australian ports and; the United- Kingdom for many years, ar
the northward” The officer decid- Both the Maimoa and Port Bris- ed that it was the masts of a ves-bane sel standing towards them. He then brought the boats un into the Wind and sfeered towards them. Later, they turned out to be the mnasts of an Australien warship. - Each vessel had refrigerated
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