LAUNCH FATALITY
FURTHER WRECKAGE FOUND,
Press Association.
WANGANUI, April 25. The police unsuccessfully searched the coast to-day for the bodies of the three men who were drowned by the foundering of the launch Monarch in the roadstsead yesterday morning. The identity of the third victim is not yet definitely established, but he is believed to be William Bateman, a cook by occupation, and a resident of Nukumaru. Further wreckage and flotsam from the launch was found on the beach to-day. It is now thought that at, least two of the victims were imprisoned in the cabin of the launch when she foundered.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9955, 26 April 1918, Page 4
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102LAUNCH FATALITY New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9955, 26 April 1918, Page 4
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