SWEPT ON BEACH
Cabin Cruiser Holed
A cabin cruiser broke loose when anchored off Little Port Cooper in Lyttelton Harbour yesterday and was holed when it was swept on to the shore by the rough seas. A family on holiday in the. launch was camped in the old schoolhouse at Little Port Cooper.
The launch was sighted, broadside on to the sea on the beach, by Mr W. H. Grennell in the launch Reo Moana about dusk. The sea in the harbour was very rough yesterday with a strong northwest wind, which changed to a southerly in the evening. The Lyttelton police were informed of the beached launch at 9 p.m. The Lyttelton Harbour Board pilot cutter Waitangi, under Captain D. Holden, with two policemen aboard, went to investigate. The cutter was off the beach at 11.30 p.m. and a party went ashore in a dinghy. A Mr and Mrs McNab and their two children were camped in the schoolhouse. Mr McNab had left before the cutter arrived to walk to Purau to get assistance in repairing the launch. There is no road to Little Port Cooper.
At 12.30 a.m. today Captain Holden reported by radio- telephone to the Harbourmaster' (Captain A. R. Champion) that the family had elected to remain in the schoolhouse and that the launch was safe on the beach.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30946, 30 December 1965, Page 10
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