After 131 Years, Message in a Bottle Found on Australian Beach
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After 131 Years, Message in a Bottle Found on Australian Beach
The back of each note, including the one found by Mrs. Illman, politely asked whoever found the bottle to write when
and where it had been found and to return it to the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg or to the nearest German Consulate.
Thousands of bottles were thrown into the ocean around the world from German ships between the 1860s
and the 1930s, each with a form bearing the date and location where it had been tossed into the sea, the name of the ship, its home port and the travel route, the Western Australian Museum said.
Ross Anderson said that A handwriting comparison of the bottle message signed by the captain
and Paula’s Meteorological Journal shows the handwriting is identical in terms of cursive style, slant, font, spacing, stroke emphasis, capitalization and numbering style,
The newly found bottle and its message will be on display at the Western Australian Maritime
Museum in Fremantle for the next two years, on loan from the Illman family.
By MEGAN SPECIAMARCH 7, 2018
A message in a bottle was tossed off the side of a German ship on June 12, 1886, as it sailed through the Indian Ocean, the date
and location penned carefully in script on the scroll inside.
Mrs. Illman’s husband, Kym Illman, detailed their journey to verify the note on a family website,
and said they were eager to share the note with the public.
The back of each note, including the one found by Mrs. Illman, politely asked whoever found the bottle to write when
and where it had been found and to return it to the German Naval Observatory in Hamburg or to the nearest German Consulate.
Thousands of bottles were thrown into the ocean around the world from German ships between the 1860s
and the 1930s, each with a form bearing the date and location where it had been tossed into the sea, the name of the ship, its home port and the travel route, the Western Australian Museum said.
Ross Anderson said that A handwriting comparison of the bottle message signed by the captain
and Paula’s Meteorological Journal shows the handwriting is identical in terms of cursive style, slant, font, spacing, stroke emphasis, capitalization and numbering style,
The newly found bottle and its message will be on display at the Western Australian Maritime
Museum in Fremantle for the next two years, on loan from the Illman family.
By MEGAN SPECIAMARCH 7, 2018
A message in a bottle was tossed off the side of a German ship on June 12, 1886, as it sailed through the Indian Ocean, the date
and location penned carefully in script on the scroll inside.
Mrs. Illman’s husband, Kym Illman, detailed their journey to verify the note on a family website,
and said they were eager to share the note with the public.