KETCH ON ROCKS
IN BLUFF HARBOUR. 'By Telegraph—Press Association) INVERCARGILL, 4th April. The auxiliary ketch Lily, with a cargo of fish from Half Moon Bay, was driven on the rocks in Bluff Harbour this morning during a severe gale. She is likely to become a total wreck. The crew got ashore by means of a dinghy and a communication rope. VESSEL ABANDONED INVERCARGILL, This Day. The crew of the ketch Lily, which came to grief in Bluff Harbour, consisted of J. Johansen (master), Andrew Anderson, and Kenneth Braid, who got safely ashore by means of tbe dinghy and a communication rope. All showed traces of the buffeting they experienced. Two hundred cases of fish were transfer, red without mishap to an oyster vessel. An inspection of "the Lily revealed that she had received extensive damage and had filled with water. Further attempts to tow her off were therefore abandoned. In the exposed position she will doubtless break up.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 April 1933, Page 4
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158KETCH ON ROCKS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 April 1933, Page 4
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