THE LOST PENGUIN.
POSITION" OF HULL PRESUMABLY LOCATED. 'Io'i'AXEKAI'S EXPERIENCE. By Telegraph,—Press Association. V Wellington, Last Night, Captain (Post reports to the Marim Department that while the Tutanekat was dragging recently for a cable in Cook Strait she hooked some obstruction which he believes was the Penguin wreck, on a bottom in the locality of which was fine shingle. During all the years .lie has worked Cook Strait, savi Captain Post, lie never had such an experience. It was impossible to lift the obstruction from thd bottom, and the grapnel and rope, which had a breaking strain of thirty tons, was carried away and was lost, together with the grapnel and chain. The angle of the Tutanekai at the time was right angle SOdeg. SOmin. from Karori centre of Terawhiti, and extreme left angle of 3"2deg. 40min. from The Brothers. The depth of water was sixty fathoms.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1916, Page 4
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147THE LOST PENGUIN. Taranaki Daily News, 30 March 1916, Page 4
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