YACHT YVONNE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1937, Page 3

YACHT YVONNE

WRECKED ON EAST COAST. )~ _ * (Per Press Association—Copyright). [ AUCKLAND, May 14. j On the last leg of the voyage from Sunday Island to Auckland the 50ft ketch Yvonne ran into a blinding storm off the East Coast on 1 hursday night and was wrecked on a lee shore at Waikawau Bay, about 12 miles directly north-east of Coromandel and .toward the end of the peninsula. Her master, Captain Edward Alfred Stenbeck, aged 71, married, of Point Chevalier;; one of the most capable and bestknown mariners in the south seas, was washed overboard and drowned. Throw members of the crew, Jimmy Masters, a Palmerston Islander, Hugh McLennan and William Goddard reached land safely. Masters, who saw his first city when he arrived at Auckland last November in the yacht Farys, which was brought down from Tahiti by a young Polish engineer, Erwin J. Weber, was struck in the chest by the wheel of the Yvonne shortly before it went ashore and had to be taken to the Coromandel Hospital. It was reported to-night that his injuries were slight and that he would be discharged in -a few days. McLennan, who acted as mate on the ketch, and Goddard were able to wade to land after the Yvonne |truck.i They were in a fairly exhausted condition, but were able later to assist in the search for Stenbeck’s body, which had not come ashore up to;, a late hour.