MOTOR FERRY ON FIRE
TWO MEN TAKE TO RAFT THIRD BELIEVED DROWNED. SYDNEY, Avril 11. The motor ferry Daphne caught fire on Sunday night five miles off Newcastle when bound for Sydney. The three men aboard tried to extinguish the outbreak but finally abandoned the task. They constructed a raft on which tw-j of the men were able to keep afloat until picked up this afternoon in the last stages of exhaustion. The third man, Edward Hogan, decided to try to swim ashore on Sunday night, since when he has not been seen and is believed tn be drowned.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 103, 12 April 1933, Page 7
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