Stranded Coastal Vessel Becomes Total Loss
BACK REPORTED BROKEN United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Wednesday, 5'.45 p.m. SYDNEY, May 0. The crew of the Nambucca reached Sydney to-day. They report that the vessel has broken iter back and become a total loss. The stranding occurred while the Nambucca was being towed by a tug across tho bar of the Nambucca river. A huge wave lifted and dumped her on a sandbank, where she remained helpless at the mercy of big overnight seas, the crew spending a miserable night aboard.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIX, Issue 7460, 10 May 1934, Page 7
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