MAN FALLS OFF BOAT
ESCAPE FROM DROWNING PICKEft up just in time [by telegraph—own correspondent] THAMES, Thursday A fisherman, Mr. Ernest Smith,- had a narrow* escape from drowning when he fell overboard from a fishing launch in the Firth of Thames. He was not missed at first by his two companions, and was picked up in the last stages of exhaustion nearly half a mile from where he had gone overboard. Mr. Smith went on deck to get some flax, but tripped and fell overboard as he was taking it out of a box. The helmsman did not see or hear him fall overboard, and his disappearance was not discovered until his partner, Mr. Victor Senior, came on deck to find why ho had been delayed.
A search was then made, but there was 110 trace of the missing man. Then Mr. Senior suddenly saw a box floating in the wake of the launch with a black object beside it. The launch was turned round, and when the box was reached, All. Smith was found near it. He was just about to sink, being weighed down hy his clothes and long guni boots, but was hauled on board none the worse for his experience.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22836, 17 September 1937, Page 10
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