AIR SEARCH ABANDONED
Missing Fishing
Boat
(New Zealand Press
' INVERCARGILL, August 30. About 20 men, mostly fishermen, spent the week-end searching beaches near Bluff for further traces of the launch, Reo Moana, and the men who manned her. The air search was abandoned on Saturday at noon. The vessel went missing on a trip from Chalky inlet on the Fiordland coast to Port Chalmers. She was last heard from at 9.30 p.m. last Monday when she radioed another fishing vessel. It was just a routine call and there was no suggestion of any trouble.
The vessel was captained by Rhett Grennell, aged 32, of Port Chalmers, and the members of her crew were John Robert Owens, aged 28, of Ranfurly, and Robert Corcoran, aged 17, of Woodend, Southland. Aircraft from the ILN.Z.A.F. station, Wigram, which resumed searching at first light on Saturday, returned at about noon after the Invercargill police had advised that wreckage found on Friday night had been identified as belonging to the missing vessel.
On Friday two Devon aircraft from Wigram and a Harvard from Taieri searched from first light and on Saturday the number of search planes from Wigram was increased to three Devons.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28987, 31 August 1959, Page 10
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