KETCH BATTERED BY STORM
CREW SAVED BY SEAMAN'S HEROISM SYDNEY, October 3. After being tossed and battered by huge seas in Bass Strait, the auxiliary ketch Hawk, 85 tons, laboured into Williamstown. Her mainmast had snapped off foar feet from the deck and was lashed to the side. The lives of the master and the crew of five were saved only by the courageous act of Harold Sawford, one of the seamen, who risked his life by diving overboard during the height of the squall to lash the broken mast to the ketch's side. If this had not been done immediately, the splintered mast would have rammed the ketch, and it is considered certain that she would have foundered.
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20977, 4 October 1933, Page 9
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