AVIATION MYSTERY
WRECKAGE WASHED UP THEORIES IN AUSTRALIA SYDNEY. Feb. 10 Aviation experts sav they are certain that the parts of an aeroplane which were washed ashore at. Jervis Bay are not those of the monoplane used by the New Zeaianders Hood and Moncrieff in their tragic attempt to fly across the Tasinan in 1928. Nor arc they parts of any British machine registered in Australia. Ono theory is that the parts belong to one of the machines which met with disaster in the. Dole race from Oakland, California, to Hawaii in 1927, and that they afterwards drifted into Australian waters. Two machines engaged in the Dole race in August, 1927, were lost. They were the Golden Eagle and the Miss Doran. Five lives were lost, in addition to one in the preliminary trials and two in the subsequent futile search. A bottle containing a faded pencil message was discovered on the Pacific coast of the United States a year after the tragic race. The message said: "Gas all gone; water running low. Have been floating for four days. Mildred Doran."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 11
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