LIFEBOAT LOST
Experience For Crete (N.Z.P A -Reuter—Copyright) HOBART. April 13. Captain D. A. Dickins. master of the 11.000-ton British ship Huntingdon, put a lifeboat crew of 10 men over the Side at Adventure Bay. 22 miles from Hobart, at 10 a.m. yesterday. Then the Huntingdon sailed on to Hobart. Captain Dickins wanted to give his rnen practical experience in survival at sea after they had failed a test in lifeboat drill. The lifeboat crew, with Third Officer A. R. Pope in charge manned the oars and headed for Hobart behind the fast disappearing freighter. “We rowed and rowed all day against a headwind," a member of the lifeboat crew said later. "When darkness fell we knew we were lost " So the men sent an S.O.S. with an emergency signal lamp. The distress call was seen by the Australian naval survey ship Bass, and a boat was sent to investigate. The Bass towed the lifeboat into port. almost 10 hours after it had been put overboard. "We’ll make sure we pass the next lifeboat test.’’ one of the men said afterwards as the exhausted crew returned to their ship.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29798, 14 April 1962, Page 18
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