“Wing On" Tragedy
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MRS. Fern Thompson, sole survivor of the ill-fated ketch, “Wing On”, which foundered on a reef off the Fiji Islands, on November 24 (and who was rescued in a demented condition by a missionary from a cabin in which she was floating in water beside two corpses) arrived at her home in Los Angeles on March 24.
Her husband. Chester, aged 21, and her companions, Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Conly, died of starvation aboard the drifting 28 ft. yacht, in which the two young couples sailed from California on a pearl-hunting expedition.
Mrs. Thompson’s health and mental condition greatly improved under treat ment in the Labasa Hospital in Fiji, but so far as the voyage of the “Wing On” is concerned, her mind was still a blank when she sailed for USA early in March.