A COURAGEOUS MATE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2377, 2 December 1929, Page 5

A COURAGEOUS MATE

FITTING OF A JURY RUDiTER

RISK OF SHARK ATTACKS

For tip'ee hours Mr R. Bridge, second mate of the trawler Durenbee, worked under the stern, an easy victim to any shark that might attack him, after the vessel’ had broken her rudder post and was drifting helplessly off Norali Head recently, says a Sydney newspaper."" As a. result of t r U courageous conduct of Air Bridge, who volunteered i:>r flic work, Captain Mills and the other members of the crew were able to lit a jury rudder and take the Durenbee hack to Sydney under her own steam.

As the Durenbee rose and fell with the swell of f-he ocean Air Bridge war carried under the water. The wort was so exhausting flint he had fo return fo the ship’s deck on three occasions for a respite. As a result of his experience he was considerably bruised.

“It was fhe gamost thing any man in t-'iJe fishing business could do,” said a member of fhe crew. “At present there are more sharks than flafhead off fhe coast,. The Durenbee had been fortunate in making 1 a cafc]i of fish and we all knew that fVere must have been sharks about, a.s (hey follow the ship.”