WIDE OCEAN SEARCH
NO SIGN OF LAUNCH
SEVERE GALE BLOWING
(Received October 19, 10.35 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
No sign has been found of the motor launch in which Brian Abbott and Hay Simpson are missing, although a destroyer and three aeroplanes made a search over a wide area of ocean on Saturday and Sunday. . Their launch is now twelve days out from Lord Howe Island, and it is feared that the petrol and food supplies are exhausted.
A wireless message from the destroyer Waterhen, which travelled nearly 1200 miles during the search, says that she is returning, to Sydney in a severe gale. The crew of the Waterhen consider that the launch would have no chance in such seas.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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120WIDE OCEAN SEARCH Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 18, 19 October 1936, Page 9
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