LUGGER SUNK
..i _ J ' WITH LOAD OF PEARL SHELL ? ..rrr, | (Australian Press Association),. , DARWIN, July, 9. A Japanese pearling lugger, loaded . with 300 tons of pearl shell, valuw at £42.000, foundered off tlio North Australian coast in 15 fathoms of water after being struck by" a severe . squall. The purser and a ’ diver were drowned. Twenty others took to the lifeboats and were picked up by a , 1 smaller lugger. v.- ; The sunken vessel ~, is. believed to , 1 beb.'the motlior-ship, Sanyo Main, t ' which was recently constructed. -
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1937, Page 3
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