Mysterious Wrecked
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Launch.
From Our Own Correspondent.
Thursday Is., June 30.
SOME time back, a party of visitors to Prince of Wales Island discovered on the beach, near Port Lihou, on the side facing the Endeavour Strait, a por tion of a recently-wrecked launch.
It was about 30 feet long, carvel built, and there were the remains of an engine in it, but nothing by which the boat could be identified. Apparently it had been used in trocas fishing, as there were several shells lying in the bottom.
There was no trace of any members of the crew, however, and enquiry failed to elicit any information concerning the origin of the boat, which would seem not to have come from an Australian port.
There may, of course, be some connec tion between the wreck and the mysteri ous foreign boats which have from time to time appeared in Torres Strait.