KETCH WRECKED
FEARS FOR SAFETY OF CAPTAIN & MATE HEAVY WEATHER IN HAURAKI GULF. SMALL CRAFT SEEK SHELTER OF B-Qlj. (Per Press Association). Auckland, May 28. Lying bottom up with both masts snapped off and m a considerably battered condition, the 13-ton ketch Glenae, owned by Mrs. Rose Couldrey, of Stafford Road, Northcote, was found wrecked on a bank of particularly treacherous rocks off the mouth of the Puhoi river, north of Waiwera, early on Saturday evening. Fears are entertained for the safety of Captain A. H. Mitchell, master of the vessel, and O. T. McLeod, mate, who comprised the crew. The wreck was discovered' by Captain R. Collins, master of the schooner Jane Gifford, which was at the time running for shelter to Waiwera. The masters of coastal vessels state that the weather was exceptionally rough on Friday and Saturday and the seas in the Hauraki Gulf were the heaviest experienced for some considerable time. Numerous small craft put into the bays along the coast in order to escape the strong easterly gale, which at times was blowing with almost hurricane force, and was driving before it great white-crested breakers. There is a possibility that Mitchell and McLeod managed to land on one of the small islands in tho Whangaparaga Bay.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 140, 28 May 1928, Page 6
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