MISSING SHIP
SEARCH FOR THE ADMIRAL KARPFANGER SOUTHERN SWEEP BY GERMAN STEAMER SYDNEY, July 24. The German steamer Leuna is now well on its search for the missing German training barque. Admiral Karpfanger, with its crew of 60, including 54 cadets. The Leuna early next week should be 200 miles south of Cook Strait. She will steam round the bottom of the world seeking reports from whalers in the southern seas. The Admiral Karpfanger was last reported on March 1 240 miles east of the Auckland Islands. The steamer Durham, which left Wellington on March 18 for London via Cape Horn, and which has arrived in Sydney, reported sighting huge icebergs during that voyage. The crew believed that the Admiral Karpfanger might have struck an iceberg and founded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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128MISSING SHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1938, Page 5
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