CAPSIZE OF A FISHING LAUNCH ON THE WAITARA RIVER BAR RESULTS IN THE LOSS OF TWO LIVES. A tragedy occurred on the Waitara Bar last Wednesday when the fishing launch Swan wa» overwhelmed by heavy seas, presumably an a result of an engine stoppage while negotiating the bar. Both occupants, Mr. Alfred Allen, of Waitara, and Captain R. S. Halcrow, master of the auxiliary ketch Kapuj, were drowned. This photograph shows the launch washed ashore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 8
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75CAPSIZE OF A FISHING LAUNCH ON THE WAITARA RIVER BAR RESULTS IN THE LOSS OF TWO LIVES. A tragedy occurred on the Waitara Bar last Wednesday when the fishing launch Swan wa» overwhelmed by heavy seas, presumably an a result of an engine stoppage while negotiating the bar. Both occupants, Mr. Alfred Allen, of Waitara, and Captain R. S. Halcrow, master of the auxiliary ketch Kapuj, were drowned. This photograph shows the launch washed ashore. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21165, 23 April 1932, Page 8
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