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ORDEAL OF YACHT CREW. LONDON. March 30. According to a letter received at Brixham, Devon, the expedition which set out from Brixham a year ago to hunt for hidden treasure on Cocos Island, 500 miles west of Panama, in the Brixham trawler Vigilant, converted into a cruiser yacht, has been abandoned at Balboa, Panama. When on the voyage from Punta Arenas, Chile, to Balboa, the yacht, it is stated, met bad weather. Worms ate away the bottom of the boat, causing her to leak badly. The crew was reduced to the verge of starvation. On the twenty-second day out a steamer replenished the empty food lockers and tanks, and an. American survey ship later towered the Vigilant to Frailes Island. Adverse winds and currents buffeted the yacht in Panama waters for live days.
The expedition was organised and led by Mr. Stratford D. Jolly, the traveller and explorer, of Bourne End, Bucks. It is stated that the. special quest of the expedition wasthelocaof the golden figures of the Madonna and Child and Twelve Apostles, looted from a Spanish church by pirates and hidden in a lair on Cocos Island-
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 May 1933, Page 7
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