SHIP'S CREW RESCUED.
SCOTCH TRAWLER ASHORE.
HAULED THROUGH THE SURF.
British Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 29. A fine piece of rescu6 work was effected in thu early hours of yesterday by five met. and one woman of the little village of Newtonhill, Kincardineshire, Scotland, They were awakened by distress signal:! from a trawler which had been driven ashore in a violent storm and was being pounded helplessly on the rocks. The rescue party succeeded with difficulty in getting a line to the vessel, and in an improvised chair the crew of 10 were hauled safely asho.re through the surf.
The rescue was completed before the Aberdeen lifeboat reached the scene..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20427, 2 December 1929, Page 11
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