TRAWLER AGROUND
STEIKES IN DENSE EOG
ALL HANDS RESCUED
SYDNEY, March 16/ The trawler David Blake, owned in Sydney, struck the rocks near Tathra, on-the;: south- coast, overnight, and Tapidly filled with. water.. Another trawler, the Goolgwai, observed diptress signals, rushed to.the spot, and took pfE ; the crew of 12. When the David Blake struck there was a dense: fog, and visibility was. very bad. . The trawler Charlie Cam was wrecked in the same locality last year. ■'.■.' ... ■-.' . , A message received in Sydney this afternoon states that the David Blake; which is of 203 tons gross, and was built at Aberdeen in 1918, was resting on a sandy .bottom ten miles north of Tathra, haying edged herself off the rock. It may be possible to" save her.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 9
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126TRAWLER AGROUND Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 65, 17 March 1934, Page 9
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