SEA TRAGEDY
YACHT WRECKED IN FIJI. MYSTERY SURROUNDS DISCOVERY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. November 26. A mysterious sea tragedy was disclosed by the discovery on November 24 that a small American sailing yacht, the “Wing On,” was wrecked on a reef at Visoqo, a remote part of the island of Vanua Levu. Fiji. The dead bodies of a man and a woman were on board, and another man is believed to have been buried at sea. The sole survivor, a woman believed to be Fern Thomson, Salt Lake City, U.S.A., was taken to hospital gravely ill. There are as yet no particulars of the origin of the vessel or of where she was bound. The dead woman died of starvation. An attempt is being made to salvage the vessel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1940, Page 4
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129SEA TRAGEDY Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1940, Page 4
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