HARBOUR INCIDENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 10

HARBOUR INCIDENT.

LARGE YACHT IN DANGER. BROKE AWAY FROM MOORINGS. An instance of the irony of circumstances occurred this morning in the harbour when Mr. Dick Wellington's auxiliary yacht Seaward, which had just returned from an extended tour of the Pacific Islands had the narrowest of escapes from being piled up on the eastern tide deflector. The incident was observed by a Devonport resident who happened to be scanning the harbour through binoculars. He observed that the Seaward had broken away from her moorings outside the deflector and was rapidly drifting with the wind on to the rock wall. Some people who were at hand also observed the yacht's danger, and they were seen by the Devonport observer to race to the seawall and, with a long pole, fend the craft off from the rocks. The Devonport man communicated by telephone with the naval base, and a naval launch immediately raced to the rescue. Another launch also appeared at the deflector just ae. the naval boat got there, but the latter took charge and towed the Seaward to a place of safety.