The Sinking of the Montevideo Maru

Sixty years after the sinking, the sole surviving Japanese sailor recalled how, amid the screams, he heard Australian prisoners trapped in the hold singing Auld Lang Syne as the ship went down, the indomitable Australian spirit of yesteryear sustaining them as the disaster snuffed out 1,053 lives

Phil Ainsworth & Alistair Pope

Apr 25 2023

8 mins