WRECK OF SCHOONER.
ALL HANDS SUPPOSED TO HA M 3 PERISHED. A TREMENDOUS SEA. By teiegrafth, Press Ass’n, Copyright Received 9.67 p.m., Aug. 81. Sydney, August 31 There is a tremendous sea on the coast. It is feared that the eehooner Jones Brothers has been lost on Oyster Bank, Newoaßtle, with all hands. The vessel left last night, coal laden, in tow of the steamer Helen Niool. The signalman saw the Eteamer with the vessel in tow making back to port. At one this morning the vessel seemed to disappear. Tho steamer made out to sea. Until the Helen Nicol arrives in Sydney nothing will be known as to whether she rescued the crew. A search on Oyster Bank disclosed wreckage, and. the mastß of a sohooner were sticking up.
THE FATE OF THE CREW. ALL HANDS PERISH. By telegraph’, Press Ass’fi, Cotiyrlght Received 12,30 a.m,, Sept. 1. Sydney, Aug. 31. The Helen Nicol reports that tho towline broke. The steamer was in great danger of going on Oyster Bank and steamed to sea Bafely. Therefore, there is no doubt that all ahoard the sohooner perished. The crew were Olsen, skipper. JenkiDß, mate. Malley, Shields, Mason and Peterson, crew.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1548, 1 September 1905, Page 2
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199WRECK OF SCHOONER. Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1548, 1 September 1905, Page 2
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