  Luckily the voyage passed without incident, and in September the Priors disembarked from the Rangitiki in Wellington. The ship was not so fortunate on her return journey to England, when she was attacked by a German battleship in the North Atlantic—in the same month that her sister liner the Rangitane was sunk while also en route from New Zealand to the UK. It had been a narrow escape for the Priors. As they started to pick up the threads of life in Wellington, the Luftwaffe’s bombs devastated their previous home of Lambeth.