SEARCH FOR LAUNCH

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 256, 26 September 1933, Page 2

SEARCH FOR LAUNCH

ANXIETY AT WELLINGTON. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. A search conducted on sea and land and from the air failed to locate tire launch from the lslaud Bay fishing fleet which was caught in a strong southerly gale when her engine broke down near Baring Head early this morning. Grave fears for the safety of tho crew were entertained when pieces of wreckage, believed to be part of tlie missing launch, the Santina, were washed lip at Breaker Bay during tiro afternoon. There were three men and a boy aged 15 on board the launch. The crew comprised Vincisco Costa, aged 50 (skipper), of 24 Trent Street, Island Bay; Paolo Panozzo, aged 42, of 11 Trent Street, Island Bay: Generara Amitrano, aged 40, of 18 Reef Street, Island Bay, and Ronald Frank Alley, aged 15, of 18 Reef Street, Island Bay. The search will be continued to-mor-row at daybreak. Mr A. Dellabarca, of Eastbourne, accompanied by a number of residents from the Bay, will leave for Pencarrow lighthouse to comb the coast in that vicinity, while other parties will leave in launches from Island Bay.