MYSTERY OF THE SEA. —The Danish training ship Kobenhave, a steel, five-masted barque with an auxiliary oil engine, manned by a crew of 60, including 45 Danish cadets, sailed front Buenos Aires on December 14, 1928, for Australia. Eight days later she was spoken by a Norwegian steamer 900 miles west of Tristan Da Cunha, a lonely island in the South Atlantic. She. was not seen again, and after an unavailing search was declared lost with all hands. Cabled advice has now been received that whitened skeletons in the desert of South-West Africa and a wrecked ship's boat arc believed to be all that remains of the missing ship.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 228, 28 September 1935, Page 16
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109MYSTERY OF THE SEA.—The Danish training ship Kobenhave, a steel, five-masted barque with an auxiliary oil engine, manned by a crew of 60, including 45 Danish cadets, sailed front Buenos Aires on December 14, 1928, for Australia. Eight days later she was spoken by a Norwegian steamer 900 miles west of Tristan Da Cunha, a lonely island in the South Atlantic. She. was not seen again, and after an unavailing search was declared lost with all hands. Cabled advice has now been received that whitened skeletons in the desert of South-West Africa and a wrecked ship's boat arc believed to be all that remains of the missing ship. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 228, 28 September 1935, Page 16
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