RESCUE AT SEA
Ship’s Officer Overboard Dominion Special Service Auckland, Jan. 16. A smart rescue was made at sea from the New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Remuera, on her last voyage to London. While boat drill was being held after the liner had left Panama, the fourth officer, J. N. A. Low, slipped in climbing out of the boat. “He fell 63ft. smack on his back,” writes a passenger, to friends in New Zealand. “They threw lifebelts, and he was in one in no time, but of course he was far away astern in a few seconds, and the place was very ‘sharky.’ It was awful while it lasted. We could see him splashing, and it seemed hours before the ship turned and they launched :i boat Really it was only seven minutes from the time he fell till he was in the life boat. Fortunately it was a clear, calm day. He went right past the ship once, waved, and had his hat on still as he stepped on board.”
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 96, 17 January 1933, Page 9
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171RESCUE AT SEA Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 96, 17 January 1933, Page 9
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