SCHOONER POSTED AS MISSING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1715, 5 January 1920, Page 2

SCHOONER POSTED AS MISSING.

FATE OF THE LYMAN D. FOSTER

I The Auckland-owned schooner Lyman T). Foster lias been posted as missing at Lloyd’s. Captain Frederick Ferdinand Nilsson, who was in command when she left New Zealand, had his homo at Stanley Point (Auckland), where his wife and family still reside, lie was a well known • figure on the Auckland waterfront, and was in every respect a typical sailor. ■'When doubt was expressed that the vessel was,not in good triin for the voyage, it was by common consent said that if one man could navigate her to .North America that man was Captain Nilsson. His family and friends have for long considcrj able anxiety for his safety, and their one hope is that he and his crew may [have found refuge on some island where they may yet be found. All knowledge of the schooner’s whereabouts was lost' soon after she left Auckland, and some hazard the idea that a stray floating German mine has accounted for her, hut up to the present all these theories are mere conjectures, and so far another mystery of ".the sea remains to ho unravelled.