TRAGEDY ON TRAWLER
When the ,Grinisb\ trawler Refundo reached Grimsby lately, the skipper reported that while in the North Sea, Alfred Wilkins, aged 26, third hand, was washed overboard in a gale. A rope was thrown to him. and he was being hauled on board when the rope snapped. Wilkins was engulfed by a big wave and was not seen again. He leaves a widow and three children.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23103, 30 July 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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