Some days ago a bottle was picked up near Capo Kidnapper?, containing anundated message, to the effect that the ship Mohawk had sprunk a leak in latitude 48deg. 21min. south, k lHdsg.' 24min.': west, . and that the crow ... had taken to the - bouts. ii The only vessel of that namo given in Lloyd's rogister is a wooden ship, built at .Quebec in 1878, and indicated as a timber carrier. A Wellington resident informs the Timos that when ho was in Scotland some 16 years ago, a vessel named the Mohawk was lost, with' all hands, 1 on the voyage from Quebeo; to Troon, in Ayrshire, and he .. believed ; the message in the bottle wag from her crew/in which case ib must have been drifting about the. ocean nearly 16 years, , - . '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10300, 27 November 1896, Page 3 (Supplement)
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