NIGHTMARE JOURNEY
SHIPWRECKED MARINERS. REACH DARWIN. AFTER WRECK OF LUGGER. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) ; DARWIN. This Day. Exhausted after a nightmare journey of thirteen days in a leaking dinghy, during which they constantly faced death from drowning, sharks and starvation, four members of the crew of a lugger wecked recently off the northern coast have arrived at Darwin. After the lugger was wrecked, the men were at the mercy of the tides. Eventually their dinghy was smashed to pieces on a rocky point near Point Charles. The men staggered into a peanut farm in pitiable plight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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101NIGHTMARE JOURNEY Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1939, Page 6
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