LOST BARQUENTINE.
*' EVIDENCE OF EXPLOSION. MELBOURNE, September 30. The destroyers Platypus and Swords- , man have returned to port, having failed ' to locate the missing barquentine Southern Cross. The Swordsman will continue ,the search after replenishing storas. Advices from Hobart, confirm the opinion that the vessel was blown up by an explosion of her cargo of benzine. The master of the steamer Hall Came reports that he steamed for two hours through -wreckage of benzine cases and tine— fcA. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5
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81LOST BARQUENTINE. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 235, 1 October 1920, Page 5
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