Drifting Ketch Is Towed To Safety
r.Veir Zealand Press Association/ BLENHEIM, April 14. A disabled 40-foot ketch with two men aboard was towed to safety today after sending out a Mayday signal that it was drifting and taking water outside the entrance to Tory Channel.
The Awatea, skippered by Mr R. Anderson, of Christchurch, was making for Lyttelton when the motor failed.
A sail was hoisted but this blew out and when the boat started taking water a distress call was sent Wellington Radio heard the
• call and contacted Mr Gilbert - Perano, who used to run the - whaling station at Whekenui. Mr Perano went out in a
converted whale chaser, accompanied by two other launches, and found the ketch drifting into Cook Strait, about one and a half miles north-east of Wellington Head. He towed it back to a safe mooring inside the entrance to the channel.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31654, 15 April 1968, Page 10
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