WRECK OF A FISHING SMACK.
[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.] GISBOKNE, September 1. The fishing Smack Three Brothers, of about 20 tons, left here on Thursday* for a bay along the coast, to load posts, lie vessel got caught by a heavy south-eaet gale and sea, which sprang: up in the night. No shelter being' available, and knowing the vessel would be unable to live in the • heavy sea, the captain ran the vessel ashore on a sandy beach, where ehe wal broken to atoms. The men on board managed to get ashore. * >4 >
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Press, Volume XLV, Issue 7143, 3 September 1888, Page 6
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