BOAT CARRIED OUT TO SEA
AEROPLANE AND LIFEBOAT REQUISITIONED TWO YOUNG MEN RESCUED (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. An aeroplane and a lifeboat were requisitioned in the rescue of two young men, Alfred Cobdcn and Eric Vincent, who put out from Waimari Surf Club yesterday morning in one of the club’s small boats. These young men, with two others, D. Cobden and Dunn, were rowing in the surf for some time, and were about to make for home when they lost an oar. Dunn and D. Cobden dived after the oar and caught it, but found the current and wind had carried the boat out of reach. They therefore made for the shore to get help. Squadron-Leader Findlay located the boat about eight miles out. The Sumner lifeboat was launched and raced to the rescue, taking the drifting boat in tow, and bringing it ashore.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 13 February 1933, Page 5
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