LAUNCH SINKS.
TWO MEN RESCUED.
KAPITI RECEIVES A CALL
END OF FISHING EXPEDITION.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. As the small coastal steamer Kapiti was leaving Wellington late last night for Wanganui, a call wae received to go to a launch which had broken ctown in the harbour.
Not only had the launch's engine stopped, but the craft had sprung » leak, and by the time the two occupants, Alexander Robert Pratt and Sydney John Hodge, were picked up by the Kapiti the water was up to the flywheel. •
The master of the Kapiti decided to buoy the launch near Point Halswell, and here it became submerged and eventually sank.
The men were returning from a fishing expedition off Baring Head when the trouble overtook them.
The Kapiti returned to the wharf to put them ashore.
The men rescued were lucky as it vai only owing to the fact that the Kapiti herself had engine trouble and had turned back that she could be made use of. The message to the Kapiti was sent from the shore, the men on the launch having communicated their plight to the harbour authorities.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 296, 15 December 1933, Page 7
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