A member of the crew of an Idlealong yacht which capsized in Evans Bay, Wellington, about 3.30 on Saturday afternoon was drowned in trying to reach the shore. He was Samuel John Flaws, aged 18. The two other members of the crew were wearing life jackets, but Flaws did not have one on. The accident occurred about 400 yards off the shore, and apparently the yacht was floated upturned, with the crew clinging to the bottom, in plain view of watchers on the eastern side of Evans Bay for half an hour before news of the crew’s plight was communicated to the Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club and the police.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXII, Issue 22, 19 March 1942, Page 4
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