Sebastiano Venier (Ship)

Date: 1941-1944

By: Edge, Spence, active 1940s-1980s; Great Britain. Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Imperial War Museum (Great Britain); United States. Air Force; MacKay, Colin, active 1980s

Reference: PAColl-0716

Description: Photographs used in the book "No Honour No Glory" by Spence Edge and Jim Henderson. They include photographs of the Porpoise and its crew; the Jason; prisoners on the deck of a cruiser arriving at Piraeus harbour; the Alamein Memorial in Egypt; the Phaleron War Cemetery in Athens; an American B-25 Mitchell Marauder bomber; and the harbour at Methoni where the Jason ran aground. The Sebastiano Venier, an Italian merchantman, was torpedoed off the coast of Greece by the British submarine Porpoise in December 1941. It was carrying 2000 Commonwealth prisoners from North Africa and 500 died including 45 New Zealanders. Eight months later, also off Greece, the Nino Bixio, another prisoner of war ship, was torpedoed by the British submarine Turbulent 117 New Zealanders were killed. Quantity: 9 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1939-1943

By: Edge, Spence, active 1940s-1980s

Reference: PAColl-2242

Description: Photographs of ship Sebastiano Venier, including views showing the vessel aground on Methoni Point, Greece; photograph of the bombing of a communications centre at Aquila, Italy by B-25 bombers of the US 12th Army Air Force; and typescript of "The Jason Story". The motorship Sebastiano Venier, built in Amsterdam in 1939 under the name Jason, was requisitioned by the Italian Navy and renamed. On 9 December 1941, while carrying around 2,000 British prisoners of war, including New Zealanders, it was torpedoed by the submarine HMS Porpoise. The ship did not sink but managed to reach the shore at Point Methoni near Pilos where it was beached. Arrangement: Negative housed at 1/2-220333-F. Prints at PAColl-2242-1 Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s). 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 1992

From: Henderson, James Herbert, 1918-2005: Further papers

Reference: 92-281-3/10

Description: Contains material relating to the torpedoing by British submarines of the `Sebastiano Venier' (4 Dec 1941) and the Nino Bixio (17 Aug 1942) resulting in the death of some 900 allied Pow's Quantity: 1 folder(s).