Derek Law Bibliography

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MURRAY, Allan A. Get the Oars Out: When I-24 Sank the Iron Chieftain (Men and Ships at War, Book 2). vi, 68p., bibliog., illus. [n.p., Family Murray Trust, 2016. ISBN: 9781519027405.

        A description of the sinking of the ss Iron Chieftain by the Japanese submarine I-24 on 3 June 1942. Iron Chieftain was the first merchant vessel sunk off the south-east coast of Australia by submarines in World War II; twelve merchant seamen lost their lives. Thirty-seven survived, including twenty-five who spent more than a day rowing to shore in a lifeboat. Third Cook George Anderson, Allan Murray's maternal grandfather, was in the lifeboat.