SKIPPER’S DARING EXPLOIT
MINE RENDERED HARMLESS
[BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.]
(Recd. Nov. 7, 10.45 a.m.). RUGBY, November 6
A daring exploit is reported of an East Coast trawler skipper, Leo Ndmyn. whose house was threatened with damage by the explosion of a drifting mine.
For the second time within a week. Nomyn swam out to the mine, and pushed it in front of him to a part of the beach clear of the sea wall.
where later the horns of the mine were removed, rendering it harmless.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1939, Page 7
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