BECALMED MARINERS.
SUBSIST ON STRANGE DIET. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, August 28. The crew of the schooner William H. Smith, 123 days out from Faisi. Solomon Islands, alleged that the food shipped at Sydney was unfit for consumption. They ate seabirds and sharks and mixed copra with the flour until the motor ship Annie Johnson relieved the becalmed starving voyagers in midocean.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1922, Page 5
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62BECALMED MARINERS. Taranaki Daily News, 30 August 1922, Page 5
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