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    Hello,
    I researching the wreck of the S.S. Norwich City. She ran aground on 29 November 1929 in the Pacific on Gardner Island (now Nikumaroro Island). I am attempting to compile information on the eleven seaman who were lost following the grounding. Three were buried on the island by survivors. Eight were not found. However, in 1937 British colonists discovered the skeleton of a castaway on the island which before and since 1929 was not inhabitated. I posted elsewhere questions I have about fields on CR cards.

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    A copy of the 1929 crew agreement, which may, or may not, include the final voyage, is available here: https://www.mun.ca/mha/holdings/view...cial_No=132596
    There are two reports in The Times, dated 5 and 6 December 1929, in which the names of the British crew who died are given, and 6 unidentified Arab seamen.

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    More here, with the names: Hartlepool History Then & Now

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    The NA has a file on her but will cost you 3.50 GBP to download info if its of any use,
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    Ship Name: City of Norwich Gross Tonnage: 6726 | The National Archives


    Old Newspaper cutting but not much info except on one Crew Member

    May be of some interest ??

    https://tighar.org/wiki/File:Argus,_..._1929,_p_7.jpg

    https://tighar.org/wiki/SS_Norwich_City
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    Hi, As suggested by Dave W, I ordered the crew agreement. Thank you. It is helpful as is the Deaths at Sea register from the NA PRO. The Hartlepool History Then and Now was helpful. I browsed the Nat Archives, PRO. I had seem most of the TIGHAR links... but useful none the less. I have written a report on the SS Norwich City (formerly the Normanby) and the potential for one of her lost crew members to be the source of human bones discovered on Gardner Island in 1940 (now Nikumaroro Island). I have visited the island twice. Others suggest the bones belonged to Amelia Earhart. The report is posted on https://www.Academia.edu. Search on my name: Kenton Spading. An earlier version of the report is here: https://ameliaearhartarchaeology.blo...potential.html Comments are welcome.

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