JAPANESE LUGGER SUNK
LOSS OF PEARL SHELL WORTH £42,000
TWO .MEMBERS OF CREWDROWNED
(Received July 9, 10 p.m.) DARWIN, July 9. A Japanese pearling lugger, loaded with 300 tons of pearl shell, valued at £42,000, foundered off the North Australian coast in 15 fathoms of water after being struck by a severe squall. The purser and a diver were drowned. Twenty others took to the lifeboats and were picked up by a smaller lugger. The sunken vessel is believed to be the mother-ship, Sanyo Maru, which was recently constructed.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22141, 10 July 1937, Page 15
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