"Centaur", which had been ordered to collect the Germans from Carnarvon and transport them to Fremantle, encountered Detmers' lifeboat at 22:20, at coordinates . The crew of "Centaur" lowered food to the 62 in the lifeboat, took on nine wounded, and began to tow the lifeboat. During the voyage to Carnarvon, the damaged and overloaded German lifeboat was swamped: "Centaur"s master lowered two of his lifeboats for the Germans to use, before resuming the "motley towing combination". Arriving in Carnarvon on the afternoon of 27 November, the Germans were relocated from the boats to "Centaur"s cargo holds, where they were joined by their colleagues which had reached shore and Australian Army guards. The last boat, carrying 70 Germans and two Chinese, was spotted from the air at during the late morning of 27 November, and was recovered shortly after by HMAS "Yandra". On 28 November, HMAS "Wyrallah" found a German lifeboat and two four-man liferafts, one of which was carrying a dead German sailor, who was buried at sea.