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Re: SS 'Umvuma' Sunk 7 August 1943 out of Durban,
Posted by: Karl Mülnier ()
Date: March 17, 2011 12:23PM

U181 did surface. Water was given to the survivors in a tin marked ESSO.
A survivor subsequently sent that tin to the firm Ireland Fraser the then agents for Esso in Port Louis Mauritius. Thereupon a copy of the covering letter to I-F CO appeared in an Esso company news bulletin under the title «Esso war souvenir» describing the encounter.
A member of the Esso office in Mauritius gave me a copy the bulletin concerned about 1970/75. I must still have it somewhere but I have been unable to trace it. The possibility that the tin was still there at Ireland Fraser's was I think for good reason so remote that i did not ask about it.
Told in god faith.
Karl Mülnier.

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