SEVENTEEN MISSING

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1938, Page 10

SEVENTEEN MISSING

OFFICIAL ESTIMATE

WRECK NOT LOCATED YET

(Received February 14, 1.50 p.m.)

SYDNEY,* This Day,

The official casualty list in connection with the Rodney disaster now places the missing at 17.

When the divers descended this morning it was found that the searchers for the Rodney had located not the Rodney but an old ship's boiler. The search for the Rodney has been resumed.- -

Some of the passengers on the launch fainted when . she capsized. Others received injuries through being flung off their feet or hit by floating seats.

Mr. Rosman and a deckhand named Callaghan, interviewed this morning, said' that soon after the launch capsized they both, dived inside the cabin, and they are positive no one was there. They looked for trapped passengers in vain. '••.-•■'

Mr. Gallaghan says there were only four or five in the. cabin a few seconds before the launch turned over.,

A says he saw eight in the cabin besides himself when the launch capsized. i Another survivor says that several persons were in the cabin and that they had to fight their way out.

Mr.. Rosman said that the launch was thoroughly tested by the Maritime Services Board when he took it over.