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A British boy’s message in a bottle was found 50 years later, floating along a coast in Australia.

Jyah Elliott, 9, found the mysterious bottled message on a fishing trip with his dad on the west coast of Eyre Peninsula.

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The letter’s author Paul Gilmore wrote he was on a cruise ship travelling along the southern Australian coast from Fremantle in the west to Melbourne in the east.

Gilmore didn’t specify where he lived in England only that he was travelling to an Australian city via a TSS Fairstar Sitmar Line ship.

In the 1960s, the ship operated to help British families migrate to Australia and allowed children to travel free.

The then-13-year-old boy’s handwritten letter was dated Nov. 17, 1969, which would make the author 63 years old today.

“I’m from England and I’m travelling to Melbourne, Australia,” read the letter. “We are 1,000 miles east of Fremantle, Western Aus.”

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The glass bottle encasing the letter was broken then read by both Elliott and his dad.