MYSTERY SHIPS
SEVEN OFF VICTORIA SIGNALS NOT ANSWERED AUTHORITIES PUZZLED BELIEVED TO BE WHALERS (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 22, 11.00 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Sept. 22. Five steamers which passed Wilson’s Promontory early on Monday morning in single-line formation, travelling south-east, have mystified navigation authorities. Although signalled repeatedly from the lighthouse, they made no effort to reveal their identity and disappeared in the darkness. In an official report the lighthousekeoper said: “At 1.40 a.m., five steamers, supposed to be warships, passed outward bound.” Since no Australian warships were in the jHcinity, he now believes they were whale chasers. Shipping experts, however,, are, baffled by the possibility of a whaling fleet being in Victorian waters. Usually such -ships call only at Fremantle for stores before taking a direct course for the whaling grounds, but no whaling ships have called at Fremantle recently. Yesterday afternoon, the lighthousekeeper sighted two more ships, believed to be whalers, headed for New Zealand. lie -could not determine their nationality.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19126, 22 September 1936, Page 5
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