Search on for N.Z. sailor

Press, 26 November 1980, Page 6

Search on for N.Z. sailor

PA Auckland The New Zealand police have, been asked, to make inquiries about • a New iZealander believed to have been on board a yacht which sank during a recent hurricane in the Philippines. He ’ has been _ named as Gavip Brown, aged 26 or 27, believed to, be one of six crew members aboard the Twilight Utopia, which foundered and sank in huge seas on November 23. Two crew members have since been found and taken aborfl the cargo vessel Steel Transporter; now heading for Port Hedland in . Western Australia, i’•

The missing yacht was making for Hawaii when she sank at 8.30 a.m. on Novem-

ber 23. Her position was reported as,,. 48 . degress 42 minutes north,'. '-and 122 degress 30 minutes east. The yacht sank -in the wake of Typhoon*.Betty, which hit the northern Philippines, and whlchileft at least 68 people dead and caused millions of damage to crops. - It is nofi known from where the Twilight ,Utopia left on her voyage.-Austra-lian coast guard surveillance centre authorities' . have alerted the New ? Zealand Police to inquiries. The Auckland Search and Rescue lnspector B. F. V.Jluriter, has asked anybody • who ! " knows of the yacht or Gavin Brown to get in touchy with the police. . - - ;