LAUNCH CAPSIZES.
ONE OCCUPANT DROWNED. COMPANION'S RESCUE EFFORT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] DUNEDIN. Thursday. The capsize of a launch near the mouth of the Taieri River resulted in Vincent Roustridge, aged 27, single, a miner and fish hawker by occupation, whose people live at Greymouth, losing his life. Dudley Charles Renton, his companion, had a narrow escape. The two proceeded in a 26-foot launch to the rocks at Brighton to fish, later moving out to sea. Behind the island at the river mouth the sea became so rough that they decided to cross the river bar. ■ When just past the island a big wave capsized the launch. Renton states that he swam back to the launch. Then he saw his mate swimming toward the island. Ho went after him, and brought Roustridge back to the, boat. The latter made a second and then a third attempt to reach the island. Renton on the .last occasion, when attempting to get him back, was held and had to kick himself free. When he last saw his mate he was floating out to sea. The launch afterwards righted itself and Renton got aboard, but he remembers little else till he found himself «a the mainland.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19417, 27 August 1926, Page 10
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