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LAUNCH MISSING IN TASMAN SEA. (Aus & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, October 19. No sign was found of the motor launch, in which were Abbot and’Simpson, although a destroyer and three aeroplanes made a search over a wide area of the ocean on Saturday and Sunday. The launch is now twelve days out from Lord Howe Island, and it is feared the petrol and food supplies are exhausted. A wireless message from the destroyer Waterhen, which travelled nearly twelve hundred miles during the search, says that she is returning to Sydney in a severe gale. The crew of the Waterhen consider that the launch would have no chance in such seas.
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Grey River Argus, 20 October 1936, Page 8
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