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SEAMAN ON N.Z. SHIP SWEPT AWAY BY SEA RESCUE EFFORTS FAIL (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, tihs day. Mr. Albert Lowe, aged 25, an able seaman in a New Zealand cargo vessel, was swept overboard by a heavy sea recently shortly after the vessel left an Australian port. Mr. Lowe, a single man whose parents live at Hawera, was lashing down the deck fittings when the sea swept across the vessel carrying him overboard. Although an emergency boat was ready to lower a minute and a half after the alarm was given, it was deemed impossible for a boat to live in the big sea running and the attempt at rescue had to be abandoned. The storm was-' described by those aboard the vessel as the worst ever encountered. Deck cargo was lost overboard and some damage was done to cargo in the holds.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20548, 7 May 1941, Page 3
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