Small Ship Wrecked On
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N. Britain Coast
From Our Own Correspondent RABAUL, August 4.
THE 44-feet workboat owned by Mr.
Dal. Chambers of Induna Plantation, New Britain, became a total wreck when it was washed onto a reef near Londip Plantation, Kokopo, on August 1.
The workboat was travelling from Induna to Rabaul in charge of a native crew, when engine trouble developed near Cape Gazelle. The natives tried unsuc cessfully to bring the craft into a shel tered anchorage under a jib sail but apparently could not weather wind and sea.
There was no loss of life; some of the cargo of copra and the boat’s wireless set were salvaged.