FEARS FOR A TUG
BODIES WASHED ASHORE NEWFOUNDLAND MYSTERY VANCOUVER, Dec. 6. A message from St. John’s, Newfoundland, says the fear that a salvage tug, the Sandbeach, with a crew of lb men, was lost in a heavy south-westerly gale, has been strengthened by the finding of a seaman’s body in one of the vessel/ lifebuoys on the shore of St. George s Bay and of a second body later in the same vicinity. Six more bodies in lifebuoys were subsequently recovered. The‘tug left Coruerbrook, Newfoundland, for Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 2 and had not been reported since.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 5
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99FEARS FOR A TUG Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17958, 9 December 1932, Page 5
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