LAUNCH MYSTERY
THREE MEN MISSING
(From "The Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, March 21.
Three fishermen are thought to have lost their lives after they had hooked a big fish —a shark or devil-ray—and been pulled overboard. The men are Charles Warmes, 28, Horace Reeves, 27, arid Sam Kanyapan, 60.- They and Fred Ross, 17, left Urangan, near Maryborough, in a 30ft motor-launch on Saturday night. They anchored near Fraser Island and remained there fishing on Sunday. When Ross went to his bunk at 9 o'clock that night the other men were still fishing, using heavy lines. Ross did not wake until 9 a.m. on Monday. Seeing nothing of his companions he searched the launch, but the men were not in it. A 16ft lifeboat, which had been hitched to the launch, had been untied and was not within sight. Reeves's coat and cap were on the deck of the launch. Ross remained until 1 p.m., in the hope that the missing men would return, and he then returned to Urangan. To reach land, the men would have had to swim three miles through shark-infested waters. A heavy j sea was running. j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1939, Page 10
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191LAUNCH MYSTERY Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 76, 31 March 1939, Page 10
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