HAZARDOUS VOYAGE.
Small Boat From India To
Australia.
ANXIETY FELT. (Australian and X.Z. Press Association.) (Received 10.30 a.rn ) DELHI, April 22. Fears are felt for the safety of Hereoinbes, voyaging to Australia in a small boat. The last news was from Fort Blair, in the Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal, south of the mouth of the Ganges.
It was reported from DeThi on January 6 that Mrs. Ivy Hercomb, in company with her husband and Captain Bugg, had left Calcutta in an attempt to reach Australia in a 30-foot open ship's lifeboat named Hiawatha. No news of the adventurous trio was heard for nearly a month, when, after being given up for lost, they arrived at the Port Blair convict settlement in the Andaman Islands. The crew had suffered great hardships. Storms assailed their boat for nineteen days after leaving Calcutta, and the little craft averaged only 45 nines per day.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1928, Page 7
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