WRECK OF THE WHAKAPAI.
THE SURVIVOR'S STORY. [Per Press Association.] GISBORNE, Oct, 1. James Bertie, the survivor-of. the wreck of «3ie Whakapai, reached Port Awanui this morning. He was in a greatly exhausted state when he was. pulled out of the water. The crak,. Harry'. Miller, wa? the, last to be washed off the vessel, and clinging to a 'spar drifted within twenty yards of the beach. A Native swam out to save him, but when close to him he disappeared. Bertie states' that before the , capsize occurred the vessel became so full, of water that she was quite unmanageable. She drifted into the passage between East Island -and the mainland, and Captain Bonner, fearing, she would go G-n the recks dropped anchor, when as she swung round, a heavy «ea caught her, and turned her over. ; . Bertie- was the first to be washed off. and seized a piece of .wood which assisted him ashore. ,
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12621, 2 October 1901, Page 5
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