SHIP NEARLY MISSED
SEAMAN HAULED ON BOARD LORD NUFFIELD STANDS BY • Reaching the ship's side as the transtasuian liner Awatea was beginning to move away from Queen's Wharf yesterday afternoon on the voyage to Sydney, a member of her crew speiiit several exciting moments in getting on board. The passenger entrance was about eight feet above wharf level so the seaman made a hasty plunge in a fruitless attempt to force his way through a porthole. This proving unsuccessful he called for a rope, and after trying, to climb up th.e ship's side with its support, he looped the end around a foot and was hauled on board.
Viscount Nuffield, who was returning to Sydney after a brief visit to Auckland, was standing at the entrance with ship's officers waving to the visitors on the wharf, and waited to assist tliie seaman in ca-o of accident.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22964, 16 February 1938, Page 12
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