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Apr122013
12 April 1942

HMAS Laurabada, the Papuan Administrator’s official yacht commandeered to help rescue the survivors of Lark Force, former garrison troops from Rabaul, arrives in Port Moresby after a harrowing journey from New Britain.
The ship is licensed to sleep 8 people but carries 156 escapees from Rabaul whom it had picked up at Palmalmal on the New Britain south coast. Only one soldier died on the journey.
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