FISHING LAUNCH SINKS
Collides With Motor Ship Breeze Off Tiraaru LIFEBOAT PICKS UP CREW (By Telegraph— 1-ress Association.) TIMARU, To-day. The forty-five foot fishing launch Bessie, of Lyttelton, now operating in Timnru waters, while en route to Oamaru at 3.30 this morning was involved in a collision with the motor ship Breeze, which was coming from Dunedin to Timnru. Apparently < the bow of the Breeze struck the port stern of the launch, almost slicing off the fishing boat’s stern. The occupants of the launch wore Messrs. Lattiiner, N. Bracefield and 'A. Bell. Bracefield. was at the wheel at the time of the impact, his companions being asleep in the cabin forward. The impact awakened the sleepers, who were trapped .in the cabin through the bump causing a shutter to lock. They escaped through the en-gine-room bulkhead door, the launch sinking within a. minute of the collision. The sen was calm and visibility was good. .. The Breeze put out a lifeboat, which picked the men up after they had been ten minutes in the water.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1935, Page 6
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174FISHING LAUNCH SINKS Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 16 August 1935, Page 6
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