VESSEL A TOTAL LOSS.
CREW SAVED.
(Received Saturday, 9.10 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day.
A radio message has been received that the Bretagne, bound for Samoa from San Francisco, was a total ..loss, It is assumed that the crew are safe.
It is thought that the mysterious S.O.S. received by the Bluff radio station was from the ill-fated vessel. There is some doubt about the ship’s identity. Sfio may be a Danish motor ship of 3177 tons, or an auxiliary, schooner of 1028 tons, both of the same name. —A. and N.Z. P.A.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 October 1929, Page 5
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