September 12:
Captain von Müller of Emden places guards on board Kabinga, intending to transfer prisoners during the day, and everyone finally gets to sleep. About three hours later, in the wee hours of the morning, the alarm is sounded again. This vessel is the English collier Killin, with 6000 tons of coal aboard. Since searching and sinking the ship would have to be done in daylight, Killin joined the fleet and everyone got to bed again.
Due to the discrepancies in the accounts, this incident may indeed have taken place on the night of the 12th and morning of the 13th. As I mentioned in the previous post that while Yates states that Kabinga was captured on the same night as Lovat was sunk, i.e. the 11th-12th, and that Killin was captured the same morning, even he puts off the sinking of the Killin until the 13th. I find this suspect, as he also makes it one continuous narrative - capture in the early morning, sinking by sunlight later the same day.
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