FISHING CREWS RESCUED
LIFEBOAT BRAVES STORM [R»b United Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 17. The lifeboat crew at Sumner had to brave one of the roughest seas and heaviest southerly storms ever seen on the coast to-uight when they went to rescue the crews of two fishing boats that wore in danger. The two boats left the estuary this morning to fish at Port Jjevy, and wore returning this evening when they were caught in the storm. They ran for shelter in Lyttelton Harbour, but a sudden change of the wind to the south-west compelled them to seek an insecure shelter under the Heads. * The lighthouse keeper warned the lifeboat at Sumner, and the boat wont ouf, and after the fiercest light with the very bad sea reached the boats, which were anchored. They brought off the four men ou board, but left the boats. If the wind stays in its present quarter (south-west) the boats may ride out the storm, but if it changes to the south-east, as seems possible, the boats may never be seen again. The four men rescued were H. Parker. J. Williams, J. dull, arid E. Ellison.
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Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 11
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191FISHING CREWS RESCUED Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 11
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