DISABLED BOAT
Flat Battery Replaced (NJ!. Press Association) NEW PLYMOUTH, July 22. A disabled fishing boat with only one person aboard drifted helplessly for several hours a mile and a half off the north Taranaki coastline today. The boat, La Reine, with its owner, Mr L. Dyer, aboard, left Port Taranaki on Saturday but a flat battery early today left the craft drifting without power. Mr Dyer advised the Taranaki Harbour Board by radiotelephone and the pilot launch Rawinia set ou\ from tRe port in heavy seas at 1120 a.m. Nearly five hours later the aeputy harbourmaster at Port Taranaki, Captain D. C, Giles, aboard the Rawinia, found the La Reine just north of Uronot and handed over a fresh battery. After waiting to ensure that Mir Dyer was able to start bis engine the pilot launch returned to Port Tara-
naki and berthed just before 6 pm. Mr Dyer returned later after be had collected hi*
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30190, 23 July 1963, Page 17
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