SEAMAN'S FATE
DROWNED IN HARBOUR FALL FROM GANGWAY While walking up the gangway of the steamer Limerick at Princes Wharf shortly after midnight a seaman on the vessel, Mr. Jack McMillan, fell into the water between the ship and the wharf and was drowned. At an early hour this morning the body had not been recovered. Mr. McMillan, who is a married man, aged about 55, and is believed to come from Lyttelton, was seen to fall bv several people who were standing about the deck of the steamer. One of these was the sixth engineer, Mr. A. W. Tipping, who immediately jumped into the extremely cold water. Although he dived for aboutr ten minutes, Mr. Tipping could find no trace of the seaman. Later a police party commenced operations with grappling irons, but the body was not located.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22399, 21 April 1936, Page 9
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