The Bermagui Mystery

1880 Australia: At about 4:30 pm, William Johnston found a 6.7 m boat on Mutton Fish Point), about 14 km north of Bermagui, a village on the south coast of New South Wales.

The boat, made of cedar, pine and hardwood, had a hole in her starboard bow and contained some large stones, apparently to weigh it down. The hull was completely crushed in on the port side, and a bullet was later found in the knee of the after thwart on the starboard side. Lamont Young, a 29-year-old geological surveyor from the NSW Mines Department, and his four companions (including Daniel Casey, Thomas Towers and William Lloyd) who ought to have been aboard, were nowhere in sight, and have never been found ...

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