PEARLING FLEET DISASTER.
THIRTY" LUGGERS LOST. Recei/ed May 1, 10 a.m. PERTH, May 1. The latest reports concerning the storm in Legrange Bay, make the number of pearling vessels wrecked thirty, but the list may be reduced. Several boats have returned to port in a crippled condition, and others may be sheltering. Wreckage was met a hundred miles from the scene of the disaster. Search vessels are out. Some members of crews drifted out to sea on wreckage, and many had narrow escapes. It is estimated that the loss to the Broome fleet alone amounts to from fifteen to twenty thousand pounds. A telegram from Condon reports that in the wreck of the lugger Cleopatra three persons were drowned. Gaskin, one of the whites drowned, was a New Zsalander.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9080, 2 May 1908, Page 5
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129PEARLING FLEET DISASTER. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9080, 2 May 1908, Page 5
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