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arrived back in
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was mistaken to have been in distress after the inspector of police in Napier received a call about the vessel, which appeared to be in trouble four miles (6.4 km) offshore, later seen steaming south. Once
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would turn back and would retrace the ship's course for an hour, also searching the entire ship, but the cook was never found. With it being likely that he fell overboard.
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wharf, being a danger to navigation. As she had been placed there as part of proposed harbor works years earlier, being filled with concrete.
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discovered two contact mines that been laid recently, both were destroyed by rifle fire. In
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