VICTORIAN COAST TRAGEDY
TWO I’EOI’LE DROWNED BOAT SWAMPED BY HEAVY SEAS lUnilrd Picks Ahhoci'.illoll - lly Elrrlnr IVleuraah -((niivmlii I MELBOURNE. 15th November. A double dmwmng occurred in Iragie circumstances yesterday al Peterborough. on the Victorian coast. 2110 miles west of Melbourne, when Reginald Ellen, a visitor from C’ampenlown. w.i.taken fishing by G .1. Collins in a 14-foot rowing boat 800 yards oil's bore The boa' was swamped by heavy sen: and Collins was washed out. Ellen swam to a gmuo of rocks 400 yards from the shore and signalled to his wife and children of the dill's for aid. which could not be given as the nearest suitable boat was at Wamiambool. 35 miles away. I! was sent lor and set out in charge of the harbourmaster. but had not reached Peterborough by nightfall Meanwhile an aeroplane I rum Wamiambool Hew over the bay but did not sight the men. Mrs Ellen, watching from the dill's, saw her husband leave the rocks and attempt to swim to the shore, but lie was unable to make headway and disappeared Tlie wrecked boa! was later found on the shore.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 16 November 1937, Page 7
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187VICTORIAN COAST TRAGEDY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 16 November 1937, Page 7
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