JUMPED OVERBOARD
FATAL ATTEMPT TO SWIM
ASHORE
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 22.
Jumping overboard after his vessel had left the Portland wharf and attempting to swim ashore, Frederick Smith, a seaman, aged 31, was drowned on Saturday afternoon. A member of the crew of the Miena, he was seen to jump overboard when the vessel was 150 yards from the wharf. He sank after swimming a short distance.
The deceased, who was a married man with three children, had his home in Auckland.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 151, 23 December 1940, Page 5
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