SCHOONER WRECKED
CREW REACH APIA
FIVE DAYS IN SMALL BOAT
(Special to Press Association, by Radio.) APIA, This Day. The auxiliary schooner Rahra, owned by Carruthers, Limited, Apia, was totally wrecked at Pukapuka in the Danger Islands, about 400 miles northeast of Apia. The crew arrived at Apia this morning after being five days in a small whaleboat.
The Kahra was a wooden auxiliary schooner of 93 tons gross and 80 tons net. She was built in 1912 by L. Macquarie, New South Wales, for the Bridport and Flinders Island Shipping Qo. t Ltd., and was registered at Melbourne in 1914. She had an auxiliary oil engine developing 80 horse power.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 11
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SCHOONER WRECKED
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 115, 12 November 1930, Page 11
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