SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN STRANDED FOR A WEEK.—Mr Andrew Blair (left) and Mr Bruce Tinnock. whose 33ft launch was wrecked on rocks in Doubtful Sound on June 26. For six days and seven nights they subsisted on half a tin of condensed milk, a weka, and rock mussels. They were rescued on Monday by a fishing boat and flown to Invercargill in an amphibian aircraft. This photograph shows the men seated in the ambulance which met the aircraft and took them to hospital. Mr Blair (aged 38) comes from Dunedin, and Mr Tinnock (25) from Christchurch.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29557, 5 July 1961, Page 10
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94SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN STRANDED FOR A WEEK.—Mr Andrew Blair (left) and Mr Bruce Tinnock. whose 33ft launch was wrecked on rocks in Doubtful Sound on June 26. For six days and seven nights they subsisted on half a tin of condensed milk, a weka, and rock mussels. They were rescued on Monday by a fishing boat and flown to Invercargill in an amphibian aircraft. This photograph shows the men seated in the ambulance which met the aircraft and took them to hospital. Mr Blair (aged 38) comes from Dunedin, and Mr Tinnock (25) from Christchurch. Press, Volume C, Issue 29557, 5 July 1961, Page 10
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