TRAINING SHIP LOST
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FAMOUS GERMAN COMIVIANHER, VON LUCKNER, IS DROWNED SIXTY DEATHS REPORTED
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BERLIN, Wedhesllay. The fldwer of Gornian yotith, also Count Felix von Luekner, one of Germany's xnost ehivalrous and adventurous sailors, secorid only to Cap>tain von Muller, commaxider of the Exnden, met their deaths whia'n the trainihg-ship Niobe (Captain Ruhfus) capsized in a squall in the Baltic, with the loss of about 60 lives. The Fehnarn lightship's hoats assisted the steamer and reseued about 50 survivors, including Captain Ruhfus. Light cr^isers, seaplanes and dastroyers are searching the scene of the disaster. Count von Luekner was a prominent fxgure during the war. He was captured at the Islands, brought back to Auckland aird interned on Motuihi Island. He and his eomrades escaped and seized a scow They were, howevex-, recaptured, and brought back and re-interned.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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141TRAINING SHIP LOST Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 286, 28 July 1932, Page 5
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