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SCHOONER WRECKED
BT CABLE—PREBS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SUVA, Oct. 13.
The San Francisco timber schooner S. T. Alexander (Captain . Lorenzen), bound for Pago Pago, struck a reef at Tukuj north of the Tongan Group, on September 28. The captain and five men set out in an open boat and reached Mango, Fiji, after five days' severe buffeting.' They were quite exhausted. The ship ,was breaking up .when the party left. The mate and sixteen men were left at Tuku,, an uninhabited island.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 14 October 1914, Page 5
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80SCHOONER WRECKED Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 14 October 1914, Page 5
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