MYSTERY SURROUNDS WRECK
1'ecoi ved Thursdav, 8.50 p.m. SYliXLY, Nov. 7. A strangc unideiilified wreck in a cove of Great Ke[ipel Island off the Kuccnsland coast, is puzzling oflicers of the Australian survey sloop Warrego which has just returned from a long survey cruise during which the shippixig trade linside the Great Barrier reef was charted. O11 the northern part of the island which is eight miles from the muinland, r.i>out 100 feet of the wooden liull of a ship is lying partly embedded in the snnd. Otticers are uncerlaln whether the wreck is aueient or modern. It was apjiarently a sailing vessel at least 15(1 feet long and heavily timbered but without the copper sheathing necessary for protection against tropical marine worms. Alainland residents neai Gladstone have a story of an early Gpanish settlement in the area before the days of Gaptain Gook and point, as evidenee, to an old well which is lined with timber foreign to Australia. A siiuilar niysterv attaches to a Span ish morion dredged up from Wellington harbour some vears ago and 110 w in the Dominion niuseum.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 November 1946, Page 5
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