WRECKAGE FOUND
AN OVERDUE SCHOONER
ACTIVE SEARCH ORDERED
CRUISER, AND AIRCRAFT SENT,
(UNITED PRESS. ASSOCIATION—COPTMOHT.) MELBOURNE, 22nd May.- ---■ Wreckage is washing ashore along ' the coast. It is believed to belong to the schooner Lialeeta, thirty-five days out fi-om Spencer's Gulf, South Australia, to Melbourne. The voyage -usually takes some eight days. Captain H. W. Taylor was in command, and there was a crew of either three or four, but the name of only one, James Bell, is known. (Received 23rd May, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Cabinet has decided to send a destroyer to search for the Lialeeta, and the Air Board is sending an aeroplane to search the coast. The crew of the Lialeeta consists of James Bell, Gordon Smith, and John Blackley.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 7
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