FIRE AT SEA

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1933, Page 5

FIRE AT SEA

CRAFT DESTROYED

TWO MEN RESCUED FROM RAFT,

(Per Press Association Copyright .)

WELLINGTON, April 11

The secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department has received the following navigation warning broadcast by the Sydney radio to-night: A fishing launch was burnt and foundered at 9 a.m. on Sunday about five miles south of Seal Rocks, N.S.W. Two survivors' were picked up about 3 p.m. on the 11th by s.s. Portfield, from a raft. A third member of the crew, with a lifebelt, endeavouring to swim ashore, but has notj yet been traced. All ships passing the locality are requested to keep a look-out. An additonal warning states the 40 foot launch, whch was abandoned burnt, was last sighted about six miles east of Seal Rocks, on April 10, and) is considered a danger to navigation.

SURVIVORS NEARLY EXHAUSTED

THIRD MAN BELIEVED DROWNED

(Received April 12 at 9.15 a.m.) (SYDNEY, April Ml-

The motor ferry, Daphne, caught fire on Sunday night, five miles off Newcastle, when bound for Sydney. There were three men aboard and they tried to extinguish it, hut finally abandoned the task. They constructed a raft, whereon two men were able to keep

afloat until picked no 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 to have been drowned.