HEAVY SEAS AND GALES
Five Fishermen Drowned
STORM ON N.S.W. COAST By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. SYDNEY, June 18. Heavy seas and gales are being experienced on the New South Wales coast, and vessels are encountering rough passages. Three launches have been lost in mountainous seas near Sydney, two men in one launch and three in another being drowned.
A largo launch sank in a rough sea in the vicinity of North Head and two men wore drowned. They were Frank Wilson, aged 40 years, and Norman Cross, aged 45 years, fishermen of Terrigal. The bodies were not recovered. A second launch, which was being towed by the other, sank a few minutes before. Nobody appeared to bo aboard the latter.
Lighthouse officials at North Head and watchers ashore saw a largo launch towing a smaller unoccupied one through mountainous seas, and the assistance of a tug from Newcastle was requisitioned, but before it could reach the spot both launches had disappeared. One of the launches closely resembled the missing launch which left Cronulla on Sunday with three men on board, but wreckage of this launch has now been found. Aeroplanes and a destroyer had been searching for tho launch and to-day wreckage was located washed up three miles from the place where the men went fishing. Tho men on the launch were Edward Parker, aged 21, John Lynch, aged 40, and John Sanders, aged 27.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19350619.2.81
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 157, 19 June 1935, Page 9
Word Count
234HEAVY SEAS AND GALES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 157, 19 June 1935, Page 9
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in