New-York tribune., 1922-08-22
Ambassador iii Declared
to Have Been Located
After 48 Hours Search
Extending Far to Sea
Air Boats Mobilized
For Hunt To-day
Long Beach Guards Sight
Machine After Hop-Off
From 82d Street Station

B. L. Smith. general manager Of the
Aeromarine Airways, Inc, declared this
morning that the seaplane Ambassador
II, which had been missing for more
than forty. hours, had landed at Long
Beach, l.. l., few minutes before. He
said that the three persons aboard
were uninjured.
Searchers for seaplane, missing
with three men since Sunday morning.
beat through sea and air all day yester-
day and far into the night, while the
| naval radio station on the Whitehall
Building sent out messages at inter-
walls warning all ships to keep sharp
lookout for the Ambassador, sight-see-
ing flying boat Of the Aeromarine Air
ways, Inc.
Sea and air forces Of the navy Joined
she unofficial search of the corporation,
which has been under way since Sun
day, and lonely Coast Guard stations
were instructed to be on the alert for a
seaplane in distress.
The Ambassador, with w. r. Miller,
former naval aviator, as pilot, and
Harold Thompson, as mechanician, set
out from Eighty-second Street and the
Hudson River about o'clock Sunday
morning with passenger, as yet un-
identified, who wanted to take an early
morning spin out to Fire Island Light.
Not long after o'clock men Of
the Coast Guard station at Long Beach
sighted seaplane believed to be the
Ambassador heading east toward Fire
Island Light. That was the last seen
Of the plane 30 far as is shown by
reports received by the Aeromarine
Airways, Inc, and the Bureau of Ma
val Communications, which has been
questioning ships far out at sea.
Navy Joins in Hunt
The navy took an active part in the
hunt yesterday on orders received
from Washington in the afternoon.
The commandant Of the Atlantic Fleet
air forces was directed to detail a
squadron of scout seaplanes to the
search. The mine sweeper Sandpiper
put out to sea under orders to hunt
vessels were requested to watch for it..
The seaplanes of the first and second
divisions of the Atlantic Fleet mobil-
lied during the day in Gravesend Bay
in conformity with the order received
from the Navy Department and are
prepared to set out to-day on hunt
that will cover thousands of square
miles of sea.
Since Sunday the Nina and the Ritz
Carlton, seaplanes of the Aeromarine
Airways, Inc, and the converted sub
chaser Service, owned by the same
company, have been engaged in the
hunt.
In spite Of the thoroughness Of the
search no news of the missing sea-
plane was received last night. The
last report is that of the Coast Guard
station at Long Beach, where sea-
plane was sighted Sunday morning
heading for Fire Island.
May Be Afoat Far at Sea
Nevertheless, Major B. L. Smith, man
who is directing its searching forces,
was hopeful that the Ambassador was
still afoat somewhere off the coast, or
that its crew and passenger had been
taken off by some vessel unequipped
with wireless.
The seaplane was stout craft, its
pilot skillfuf one, he said, and it had
been proved during the war that under
such conditions seaplane might re-
main out forty or fifty hours without
suffering harm.
Major Smith explained that the ig-
norance of the company as to the iden-
tity Of Miller's passenger was due to
the fact that the man applied for pas
sage long before 8 q. M, when the
Office at Eighty-second Street opened