WRECK DISCOVERED.
LOSS OIF WARATAH RECALLED.
SPECULATION AS TO IDENTITY
(United Press Association—Copyright) CAPE TOWN, June 14.
An aeroplane with a marine surveyor on board left Durban on Tuesday in an attempt to locate an obstruction on the sea bottom, off the Umcababa River, on the coast of Natal, which had recently holed a passing vessel. The aeroplane, flying at a height of 2000 feet above the sea saw a large dark object, 185' feet long and 45 feet broad, which is believed to be a submerged wreck. ' Durban opinion inclines- to the view that it is the remains of the Waratah which was lost about July 28, 1900, while en route to Cape Town. Further steps are being taken by Admiral ty.
SUGGESTION RIDICULED.
AN AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT.
GAPE TOWN,. June 14
The authorities ridicule the suggestion that the submerged object is the wreck of the Waratah, which was last spoken 150 miles southwards. The Waratah had high deck fittings which would he observable periodically in the sixty feet where the supposed wreck lies.
If it is a wreck, it is believed to he that of the Triehera, which was hist heard of in 1903, carrying a cargo of sleepers from Bunhury, Western Australia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 53, Issue 209, 16 June 1933, Page 8
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