FOUND ALIVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22140, 20 June 1935, Page 11

FOUND ALIVE

CREW OF LAUNCH MAROONED ON COAST FOOT OF TALL CLIFF RESCUE EFFECTED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received June 19. 11.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, June 19 After having been given up for dead when the wreckage of their launch was found last night, Edward Parker, aged 21, John Lynch, 40, and John Sanders, 27, have been foUnd alive at the bottom of a 200 ft. cliff at Wattamolla, a few miles south of Cronulla.

The men, who were reported to be in a state of exhaustion, were discovered this afternoon by two detectives who were patrolling the beach looking for the wreckage.

The only means of rescuing the marooned men was with block and tackle. In the meanwhile chocolate and dry clothing were lowered to them. A doctor and an ambulance stood by until the rescue was effected.

The three men had been missing from Cronulla since noon on Sunday. They had left on a fishing trip when high seas were running and strong southwesterly winds were blowing along the coast.

PERILOUS ORDEAL INHOSPITABLE SHORE CRAFT WRECKED ON ROCKS (Received June 20, 12.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 19 The three Cronulla fishermen were rescued from their perilous plight at the foot of the cliff just at dusk by means of a stout rope which the men fastened to their bodies. They were hauled up to the top of the cliff by a party of policemen and relatives and some men from a relief workers' camp in the vicinity. The spot where the men had been marooned is most inhospitable. They had no hope of climbing the cliff. They were suffering greatly from exposure and hunger. The rescued men were conveyed to their homes after 'having received first aid attention at the road workers' camp. They said they were fishing on Sunday a short distance from the cliff when a tremendous wave hurled their launch on to the rocks.

The men were catapulted into a patch of comparatively calm water on the other side from which they swam to the cliff and climbed as far up it as possible out of reach of the boiling surf. Their boat was broken into matchwood.