The Captain's Last Voyage.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 12580, 29 September 1908, Page 5

The Captain's Last Voyage.

HOBVJIT, September 29. A search is being prosecuted for possible survivors. One body Las l&een washed ashore.

.£IOOO was spent in repairs to the Loch Fin\as while she was lying at Melbourne. The crew when she leit there consisted of Lonnen (captain),- .Logan (mate), Ropers (second mate), Petersen (steward), Maher (cook), Cowan (boatswain), Solberg, Svensen, Jerison, Saagoa, Kanuti. Petersen, Brown, Leger, and Philip (seamen), Lushington, Parkes, Zachlison (apprentices), the four survivors, and iour others who are believed to have left the vessel at Adelaide.

Captain Lbnnen had stated his intention of making- this his last voyage, -and settling down when he reached England".