MEN IN LAUNCH STILL MISSING
FRUITLESS SEARCH BY DESTROYER. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Sydney, October 19. No sign has been found of the motor launch in which Brian Abbot and Hay Simpson set out from Lord Howe Island for Sydney, although a destroyer and three aeroplanes made a search over a wide area of ocean on Saturday and Sunday. The launch is now 12 days out from Lord Howe Island, and it is feared that its petrol and food supplies are exhausted. A wireless message from the destroyer H.M.S. Waterhen, which travelled nearly 1200 miles during the search, says that she is returning to Sydney in a severe gale. The crew of the Waterhen consider that a launch would have no chance in such seas.
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Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 7
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125MEN IN LAUNCH STILL MISSING Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 7
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