WHALE CHASER LOST
VESSEL CRUSHED IN ICE. (Per Press Association} Invercargill. March 5. Wiinl has been received by wireless of the loss of the whale chaser. Paga(lroma. in the Ross Sea. From tlio meagre details eontnined in the m.es_ sage it is gathered that ttic vessel was crushed in the ice dining a voyage of approximately 500 miles through an ice area and sank. Hie wireless message merely slated that the ship had heen almndoncd. and the crow taken off safely. The Pagadroma was one of six chasers attached to the Norwegian factory ship C. A. Larsen, which is now returning from die Ross Sen. She wag a vessel of 05 tons and had heen speei_ aliv built in Norway for work in the
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LVII, Issue 10017, 5 March 1929, Page 3
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