AN OLD-TIME WRECK,
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The wreck of the steamer Rangitoto, wliich sank off Jackson Head m 1873, was recently visited by a diver m search pf the cargo of copper plates she was supposed to carry. The steamer was found overgrown witli kelp, and her engines' were m a remarkable state of preservation, but thickly encrusted with submarine growth. No copper was found, but tlie after. hold contained a large quantity bf liquor of' various sorts. .Some was^ sampled and found to have improved by submersion, except the brandy. No money waft discovered m the strong room, it having been removed when the vessel was abandoned.- . \
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 2
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111AN OLD-TIME WRECK, Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11126, 27 July 1907, Page 2
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