M.V. Centaur 1923 - 1943
Conversion from Passenger Liner

• A Hospital Ship By Day...
• A Hospital Ship By Night...

WW2 Australian Hospital Ships

• A Canadian Sister Hospital Ship

CENTAUR Encounters the USS GREENLING

• the Log of the USS GREENLING

USS MUGFORD DD-389

• Construction
• A Decorated Vessel
• At Pearl Harbor
• Other Wartime Rescues

Torpedoed by IJN Submarine I-177

• Construction of I-177

The Death Toll

Survivors discovered

• From the air...
• From the sea...

Chronology of the Rescue from the MUGFORD Log

• Saturday,15 May 1943
• Saturday 8 to 12
• Saturday 12 to 16
• Saturday 16 to 20
• Saturday 20 to 24
• Sunday,16 May 1943
• Sunday 0 to 4

The MUGFORD List of CENTAUR Survivors
The Official US Report by Lt.-Cmdr. Howard Corey

Rememberances of the Rescue by MUGFORD Crew Members

• Alfred B. Alexander
• Frederick G. Chabot
• James R. Cofer
• Joseph A. Dodson
• George L. Johnston
• Philip A. Murray
• Bill Records
• Finch Stowell
• William B. Walter Jr.
• Oree C. Weller

Reaction to the Sinking

• General Douglas Macarthur
• Prime Minister John Curtin's Address to Parliament
• Mr. C. Attlee
• Australian Newspaper Headlines
  
• International Newspaper Headlines
  

The Loss of Able Bodied Seaman David I. Milligan

• Family Notified by telegram of loss of David Ireland Milligan
• Obituary - David Milligan