SEA TRAGEDY
CAUGHT BY WATERSPOUT. NINE LIVES LOST. PAPUAN KETCH SUNK. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 3, 10.20 a.m. SYDNEY, July 3. Swallowed by a waterspout off the Papuan coast recently, the crew of the ketch Lytton perished with the exception of a white man, who swam five miles to the shore. The tragedy was described by Mr S. Brown, who arrived at Sydney on the Macdhui. He said the Lytton was five miles from the coast fishing, with Bruce Hamilton in charge and a crew of nine natives.
Without warning the vessel was gripped in a waterspout and swept below the surface. The natives, although good swimmers, were so terrorstricken that they made no attempt to save themselves, and all were drowned. Hamilton reached the shore after a seven hours’ swim through- ‘sharkinfested waters.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 182, 3 July 1936, Page 9
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