LOST AT SEA

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29850, 16 June 1962, Page 13

LOST AT SEA

Woman From Yacht

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 15. A woman in the crew of the American-owned yacht, Svea. which left Auckland in April, was lost overboard. She was: Miss Patricia Ann CrozierDurham, aged 44, a chiropodist, an Australian, whose mother lives in the Melbourne suburb of Black Rock. The Svea, a 38-foot ketch, left Auckland for Aden via Noumea and Port Moresby about April 8. On board were the owner, Mr R. Y Kittredge, of Flagstaff. Arizona: a New Zealander, Mr H Hudson, of Paihia; and Miss Crozier-Durham. Mr Hudson advised New Zealand friends that Miss Crozier-Durham had been lost overboard early on the morning of May 20 when the ketch was two days out of Port Moresby. Friends in Auckland said today that Miss CrozierDurham led an adventurous life and at one time worked on a commercial fishing boat operating out of Hobart. In 1954. she was one of the five women members of the crew of Mr George Dibbern’s Te Rapunga in the Auckland-to-Hobart yacht race. Mr Dibbern died in Auckland earlier this week. Before leaving on the Svea earlier this year, Miss Crozier-Durham practised as a chiropodist in Auckland.