Stowaways II

After WWII USLines inherited many foreign born captains from the Allied pool. One such was a Brit who wore a black beret when ashore.
His nickname was Limey and he was in command of a conventional freighter on the Australian run which could run to three months round trip and as such could attract a motley crew. It seems that several days out of Brisbane northbound headed to U.S. East Coast via Panama, he discovered two stowaways and did not wish to carry these individuals all the way to New York. A sister ship sailing southbound towards Brisbane was a rendezvous opportunity and Limey asked her master to take these blokes back to Australia but his request was declined. Being still in South Pacific waters Captain Limey made a sight deviation to the Pitcairn Island area (Fletcher Christian's bailiwick), lowered a life boat, put the stowaways in it with crew and instructed crew to put them ashore with water and gave the engineer a handgun to enforce if necessary. When he arrived in New York the crew reported him and his answer was "They were British subjects and I landed them on a British island. Case closed." Those were the days.
tjs
(Above excerpted from Eagle Blue No. 25 - April 10, 2006)