Whitened Skeletons And Smashed Lifeboat
POSSIBLE CLUE TO GBEAT SEA MYSTEBY United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. Beceived Monday, Midnight LONDON, S&pt. 23. ' The Morning Post’s Johannesburg corespondent says whitened skeletons in a desert .and a wrecked ship’s boat are believed to bs all that remain of the Danish cadet ship Kobenhaven which was lost en route to Australia with 60 souls, in 1928. An expedition returning from South-west Africa says it encountered 400 miles north of Swakopmund, one skeleton and then six skeletons. Seven miles away half a ship’s lifeboat lay smashed on the beach. Tho party .apparently took refuge from biting winds and sent one of their number to search for water, of which the nearest was 50 miles away. There was nothing to identify tho remains with the Kobenhaven except a piece of naval cloth and tho fact that the boat is of a Scandinavian type and the skulls apparently Nordic. The Danish consul is investigating in the hope of solving one of the greatest modern sea mysteries.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 225, 24 September 1935, Page 6
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