WRECKAGE FOUND

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 143, 13 March 1931, Page 11

WRECKAGE FOUND

No Trace of Survivors IDENTITY CERTAIN Hi-starred Sailing Venture CRAFT SMASHED TO PIECES By Telegraph—Press Association. Nelson, March 12. Tho wreckage of a small sailing craft has been found by the police on the coast two miles from Cable Bay. Heavy seas had smashed the small craft almost to matchwood. There appears to be no doubt that the vessel is the small craft from New Plymouth. The planks are painted a greenish colour. The lawnmower used as an anchor was found among the wreckage. ° There is no trace of the bodies. It was reported yesterday that the steamer Opihi had sighted two hundred yards off Pipin’s Island, Cable Bay, a small sailing eraft about 20ft. in length on its beam ends. The two masts were partly out of the water. The discovery of the wreckage todav seems to establish definitely the identity of the craft, which was a yawl-rigged yacht which left New Plymouth on Thursday last for Lyttelton. The members of the crew, who it is almost certain, have lost their lives, were two young men, Messrs. 8. Silvester, a lecturer at Canterbury College, and Mr. C. R. Hudson, a student of Canterbury College. The boat was last reported by the steamer Kaitoa, off Cape Egmont.