MISSING SCHOONER
SEARCH SO FAB FUTILE.
CCHUED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPIRIdB?,) (Received 26th May, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. A destroyer which was sexit to search for the missing ketch Lialeeta has returned without finding a trace of her. The aerial search was also fruitless. The Navigation Department is of opinion that the wreckage found on the coast does not belong to the Lialeeta. A further search will be made.
i The schooner Lialeeta, bourd from Spencer's Gulf, South Australia, to Melbourne, is about five weeks overdue Wreckage _ was recently washed ashore on the Victorian coast, and as ifc was supposed to have come from the Lialeeta, a combined naval and aerial search was instituted last week. The Lialeeta,' commanded by Captain H. W. Taylor, had three others on board.
The Secretary, General Post Office, advises that thp following warning message was broadcasted by Melbourne radio Jast evening:—"Please keep lookout for ketch Lialeeta, overdue on voy-ago South Australia, and report ij seen.'!
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 7
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161MISSING SCHOONER Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 121, 26 May 1925, Page 7
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