FATE OF AMUNDSEN
PLANE’S TANK FOUND INDECIPHERABLE MESSAGE (Australia n and .V.Z. I'rcss Association.) PARIS, Wednesday. An aluminium petrol tank marked “Hydro-Avian Latham,” obviously the seaplane in which Captain Amundsen and his party left Norway to search for the lost crew of the airship Italia, has been picked up by a trawler north of Trondhjem. The tank was badly battered. It still contained 30 litres of petrol. There were signs of it having been violently detached from the plane. On the tank were indecipherable traces of pencilled writing.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 490, 20 October 1928, Page 9
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88FATE OF AMUNDSEN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 490, 20 October 1928, Page 9
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