HIS LAST VOYAGE.
DROWNED IN SIGHT OF HELP. [Br TELEGRAPH.— ASSOCIATION..! Dunedin, SundayA single man named Charles Stanley, aged 35 years, employed as an A.B. on the steamer Kotare; was drowned yesterday at Waikawa as the vessel was leaving for Dunedin. It was necessary when swinging the" vessel found to throw out a small anchor to keep her bow off the bank. Stanley went about 50 yards from the steamer in a boat and threw the anchor out, but it did not clear the boat properly. In endeavouring to clear it he fell overboard. He'immediately got hold of the boat, but it turned upside down. He got on top of it and would have been rescued had he remained there, but he struck out for the ship. He had gone but a little distance when he called out and sank, apparently being unable to swim." • Stanley was drowned in Bft of water, and had he made for the shore instead of for the ship ho would probably have been eafe; Efforts to recover the body were unsuccessful up till the time the Kotare left; The deceased's home was at the Bluff." '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14526, 14 November 1910, Page 7
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191HIS LAST VOYAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14526, 14 November 1910, Page 7
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