MISSING LAUNCH
SIMILAR BOAT REPORTED
j (Received June 15, 11.30 a.m.) | BRISBANE, This Day. I A search by five planes yesterday failed to find a trace of the launch Nerita, which is missing with twelve men aboard, but last night a launch resembling the Nerita was reported to be drifting six miles off the coast, north of Brisbane. Aeroplanes and boats are to leave early today to search the j area.
The launch left Brisbane on Saturday on a fishing expedition and was due back on Monday night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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88MISSING LAUNCH Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 139, 15 June 1939, Page 9
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