UNCHARTED ISLAND
CAUSES WRECK OF STEAMER. ATTRIBUTED TO SUBMARINE VOLCANIC ACTION. By Telegraph—Press ■ Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) BRISBANE, June 11. An unchartered island, five hundred feet long and fifteen feet above the high tide level, caused the wreck of the Fotini Carras, according to a wireless message from the rescue ship. Australian, which is carrying the crew of the Fotini Carras to Rabaul. The message adds that the island is believed to have resulted from submarine volcanic action. High seas arc now pounding the wrecked vessel to pieces.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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90UNCHARTED ISLAND Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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