CAUGHT IN STORM’S TRACK

Northern Advocate, 4 February 1936, Page 3

CAUGHT IN STORM’S TRACK

CRAFT WRECKED ON WAITEMATA [Special to “Northern Advocate.”] AUCKLAND. This Day. Yachts and launches in the Waitemata Harbour had a trying ordeal during the height of the storm on Sunday morning. When the 28ft. mullet boat Twilight was caught in the south-west gale and hurled on the rocks near the beacon cn Rangitoto Island, the crew, Messrs. W. H. Howe and W. Curtis, were washed out of the cockpit and bruised and cut, when flung against the rocks by the tremendous waves. One of three girls on the launch Wainui, which was also smashed against the rocks at the same point, had her ribs bruised through being jammed between the side of the launch and its dinghy when she was swept overboard.

Luckily she and her companions were carried by the w r aves through a narow gap in the rocks in deep water, escaping serious injury. The launch was a total wreck.

So rough did the weather become that the 28ft. Vigilant, riding at anchor in Islington Bay, ran out to sea. Later the crew was forced to beach the craft at Motuihi Island. When the 39ft. launch belonging to Mr S. H. Leyland, went ashore at Rakino Island, the hull was stove in and the craft wrecked.