Acknowledgments

THIS NARRATIVE is based on Admiralty documents, New Zealand Naval records, and German official reports. The diagram of shipping losses was drawn by Roy Stock and the maps by L. D. McCormick. The ship silhouettes and other plans are from official handbooks. The photographs come from various collections which are stated where they are known:

Inside Cover T. W. Collins

Page 14 (top) Commander R. E. Washbourn, RN

page 14(bottom) The Weekly News, Auckland

page 15 (top) T. W. Collins

page 15 (bottom) Department of Internal Affairs, John Pascoe

page 17 (bottom) Alexander Turnbull Library

page 18 (top) New Zealand Shipping Company

page 18 (bottom), page 19, page 20 (top and bottom) A. T. Cox

page 20 (centre), Lee Hill