WRECKAGE DISCOVERED
SENT TO BRISBANE FOR IHDENTIFIGATION.
DOUGLAS MAWSOU SUGGESTED.
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Press Association.
BRISBANE, May 21 (Received ’May 21, at 10.40 a.m.)
Tho harbor master at Thursday Island reports that wreckage has been discovered near Turtle Island, near Prince of Wales Island, consisting of deck planking, a ho’sun’s chair, a hatch, and woodwork. The wreckage has been despatched to Brisbane with a view to ascertaining or not it belongs to the Douglas Mawson. [The Douglas Mawson was a wooden steamer of 333 tons, and was built at Bawley Point, New South Wales, in 1914. She was owned by the Queensland Government. The vessel left Burketown for Thursday Island on March 26, and has not been heard of since. It is thought in Australian shipping circles that the Douglas Mawson foundered in a cyclone' that was experienced in the vicinity of the Queensland coast about tho time the vessel disappeared. Steamers searched for her without avail]
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Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 8
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161WRECKAGE DISCOVERED Evening Star, Issue 18280, 21 May 1923, Page 8
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