BODIES RECOYERED
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sydney launch tragedy two others missing
Rec. 9.5 p.m. Sydney, .Feb. 18. Seven more bodies were picked up by the police in various paris of the harbour to-day as the result of the Rodney launch tragedy. The first five were identified as Dulcie Rasmussen (aged 27), Betty Rasmussen (10), Lorna Giles (18), Violet Larsen (15), Enid Cookson or Alton (7). Two others who were known to be missing, possibly Mrs. Erica Davies (42) and Nellie Scott (20) were found later. Several of the victims were the *cle breadwinners in their homes. Three of the bodies recovered to-day were floating off Bradley's Head, near where the launch foundered. Two others were some distance away. The death roll is thus 19.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1938, Page 7
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