ECHO OF SEA TRAGEDY.
| “COTT SAVE MEi” ! tßy Electric Telegraph—Copyright; i I United Press Association.] (Received 10.15 a.m.) Brisbane, February 6. A bottle was picked up on the Tewah beach containing a message dated 16th July, 1912, signed by the captain, stating that the German barque Nomia was in a hurricane in 44 degrees south 160 east. The message concluded: “Gott save me!” The Nomia disappeared on a voyage from Newcastle to the West Coast of America and was posted missing eight months ago.
A bottle was subsequently picked up on the New Zealand coast.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1914, Page 5
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95ECHO OF SEA TRAGEDY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 31, 6 February 1914, Page 5
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