DINGHY CAPSIZES
SOLDIERS’ EXPERIENCE IN HEAVY SEA
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 28. When a dinghy capsized in a heavy swell in Cook Strait to-day two soldiers, Private Raymond Alexander Ashley and Staff-Sergeant Barry Munro, both stationed at Palmer Heads, had a frightening experience. The men were to set up equipment on one of the rocks, beyond what is known as Goat Island, about a quarter of a mile from the Island Bay mainland.
Before they reached the rock the boat capsized. Private Ashley managed to reach another rock, and StaffSergeant Munro had to cling to the dinghy—a precarious perch in a heavy running sea. .The mishap was seen from Fort Dorset, and a rescue party left Island Bay soon after noon. Army staff in the fishing launch Prince, owned by an Italian fishermen rescued Private Ashley, while the launch Rex went round the other side of the island and rescued Staff-Sergeant Munro, who was in an exhausted state. Staff-Sergeant Munro was sent to the Wellington Public Hospital and Ashley to the Fort Dorset Hospital Both are progressing satisfactorily.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25248, 29 July 1947, Page 6
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