MESSAGE! IN A BOTTLE.
OLD WRECK RECALLED. LONDON. AUK. 23. Tho following message, written in pencil, was contained in a bottle which was found covered with seaweed, at Logator, Jutland :— " Greetings from the steamer Ulvsimd. Now wo go down. Greet all at home." (Signed) " "Villadsen." ; • On the other side of the paper was written "We are certain of death." The Ulvsund, with two passengers and 17 members of the crew, including a boy named Villadsen. wais wrecked in the North Sea in October, 1921. All perished.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18496, 5 September 1923, Page 9
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