RESCUE IN HARBOUR
CREW OF OVERTURNED YACHT After their yacht had overturned iB Lyttelton Harbour on Sunday after* noon, its crew of three were rescueoi just in time, when they were almost ex* hausted. , The men were Messrs L. western John Macdonald, and Tom East, who were sailing the yacht Snipe, owned by Mr J. S. East, Christchurch, near Quau Island. f Mr Harold Smart, who was a* Charteris Bay, happened to see m® yacht overturn. He immediately too* his own yacht across, in very heaiy weather, and picked up the three men. Later the yacht belonging to Mr E® s drifted ashore.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24152, 11 January 1944, Page 4
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