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SEAMAN ON THE KARETU ON APARIMA WHEN TORPEDOED Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday. Advice has been received from the Karetu, en route from Lyttelton to Newcastle, that Joseph J. Murray, an able seaman, was lost overboard on Sunday. Murray was well known in Lyttelton, where his widow resides. He was 29 years of age and came to the Dominion when a lad. After leaving school he joined the Union Company’s training ship Aparima as an apprentice. He was in the Aparima when she was torpedoed in the English Channel during the war. For the past ten years he had been serving on Union Company’s ships on the New Zealand and Australian coasts.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 14
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113LOST OVERBOARD Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 14
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