Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Thursday 25 March 1943, page 1


CUNARD CAPTAIN MISSING "The Examiner" Special Service LONDON, Tuesday.-Captain H. C. Birnie. who, as a Cunard Line staff captain inade hundreds of Atlantic crossings in the famous ships Mauretania, Berengaria and Aquitania, has been reported missing. Captain Birnie was one of the company's youngest captains. He became a convoy commodore in 1940 and was to have been released after the voyage on which Captain Birnie did not come back.