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Northern Advocate, 28 August 1913, Page 4

difficulty was experienced by the crew of the wrecked steamer Devon, which Went ashore at Pencarrow Head, Wellington, on Monday night, in getting a line ashore. Owing to the turbulence of the sea which swirled and boiled over the jagged rocks, it was impossible even attempt to launch a boat, efforts were vainly made the night to get a line to the s!rore by means of rockets. At last at about 7 o'clock in the morning a successful shot was made and a line made fast to the rocks by watchers below the cliffs. Then a basket was rigged running on the life-line by a pulley and one of the quarter-masters volunteered to test the apparatus. He had a perilous experience, but when the dripping seaman stepped" from the basket and the shore party crowded round him the first thing he did was to open his oilskins and from the inside jacket produce two small kit-— tens! The man who followed over the life line brought the mother cat in his shirt.