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| | Overview - The Merchant Navy - NZHistory.net.nz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | In late November, after dispatching the little Holmwood off the Chatham Islands, the raiders snared their greatest prize of the war, the 16,712-ton NZSCo liner Rangitane, 300 miles off East Cape. |
| | A hail of German shells killed 15 passengers and crew, and around 300 survivors joined those already aboard the raiders and their supply ship, the Kulmerland. |
| | In early December, another five merchantmen succumbed to the raiders' guns off the important phosphate island of Nauru, including the USSCo's Komata, on which two officers were killed. |
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