FROM THE WARATAH?
TIMBER WASHED ASHORE
(Received January. 3, 11.10 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, January 2. Pieces of long-immersed timber which are being washed ashore at Keimouth, near East London, may be from the ill-fated Waratah,
■ The Waratah, carrying 211 passengers, and less than one year old, left Sydney on her second homeward voyage on June 26. 1909, and was never heard of again after her departure from Durban. She was reported to have been sighted by the Clan Macintyre ten hours out from that port, and the following -night wag one of extreme violence. At a nautical inquiry in Lort* don the Opinion was expressed that she had capsized.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 1, 3 January 1939, Page 9
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