SYDNEY TRAWLER FINDS ONE OF THE MINES LAID BY THE WOLF IN 1917.
(United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received October 28, 10.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 28. A German mine, apparently one of those laid in the track of shipping off Gabo Island by the raider Wolf in 1917, was recovered by the trawler Koraaga near Cape Everard. The trawl had been dragging on the ocean bottom in sixty-five fathoms of water, and those of the crew with mine-sweeping experience were startled when the mine tumbled out on the dock. It was about four feet high with a diameter of two feet, and weighed five hundredweight. It is thought that the mine is now harmless, but naval men will examine it to-day.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18901, 28 October 1929, Page 1
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