DINGHY CAPSIZES
YOUNG MAN DROWNED
FATALITY AT SINCLAIR
HEAD
A young man, Henry Board, aged 21, was drowned off Sinclair Head about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a small dinghy capsized about 150 yards from tho shore.
Tho deceased, who was unemployed, and whose homo is in Brooklyn, had been living in a wharc at Sinclair Head with another unemployed man, Reginald Henry George Howard, aged 24, whose father is tho caretaker at Wellington College. At, about 5 o'clock last evening Beard left the shore in a, small dinghy to lift a sot net about 150 yards out from the beach. A strong wind was blowing »nd tho sea was chopppy. "When he was a short distance out the deceased lost an oar, and in tho rough water tho boat bocaiue unmanageable) and soon capsized. Tho deceased managed to scramble on to tho bottom of the boat, which drifted slowly out to sea.
On shore, helpless to give any aid. Howard witnessed the whole affair. There was no other boat in tho vicinity, so Howard decided to go for help to Island Bay, about four miles away. When he arrived at Island Bay Howard requisitioned tho launch Prince Umberta, which went out and made a thorough search in the vicinity oi' Siuelair Head. The launch arrived on the icene about two hourß after tho dinghy had capsized, but there was no trace of either man or boat.
The police arc searching for the body.
DINGHY CAPSIZES
Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 139, 9 December 1931, Page 11
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