ANDROMEDA CLUE
Sighting Of Vessel “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, Feb. 23. A two-masted vessel, drifting without sails and with one mast broken part-way down was sighted today some 50 miles north-north-west of the Three Kings Islands. The craft, believed to be the missing Australian yawl Andromeda which was abandoned on February 12, was sighted by a Qantas aircraft on a regular flight to Norfolk Island. The Qantas commander of the aircraft, Captain J. Field, reported by radio that he had sighted the vessel from a height of 7000 feet.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 14
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90ANDROMEDA CLUE Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 14
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