Barge Missing Off Darwin
(Rec. 11 p.m.) DARWIN, July 12. A ship and aircraft are searching for i 40-ton landing barge which is drifting helplessly in rough seas somewhere north of Darwin.
There are eight persons on the barge, which has radioed that it is out of sight of land. It was first thought that the distressed vessel was in Van Dieman’s Gulf, between Point Charles and Bathurst Island, but the fact that the crew cannot see land may indicate that it is drifting out into the Timor Sea on the south-east trade winds which are now blowing.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27400, 13 July 1954, Page 11
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