SEAMAN DROWNED
FROM THE WAIXEMATA. An A.B. named J. Mofiet twonty-fivfc years of age, employed on the "Union Company's Waitemata, was drowned while that vessel was at Samarang. lately. The crew were going through boat drill, when the boat deceased was attending capsized, and he being an occupant, waa thrown into the water. It is presumed (says the Auckland " Star ”) that a tall* mg oar struck him on the head, for. he did not rise to the surface. Scarce had, he reached the water, when D. Johnston, fireman, and C. Irvin. A. 8., jumped j iu after him. They swam round and under the boat for a space of ten minutes without finding a trace of Moffet. who was given up ■as drowned. Samarang harbour is shark-infested, and the action of the men is highly spoken of. Moffet was the sole support of his aged parents, who live in the Channel Islands- Johnston holds a gold medal presented him by the residents of the Bluff, showing that in one. night during the winter of 1908 he rescued three people from drowning at the Bluff. An inquiry into the fatality was held at Auckland on Tuesday by Captain Fleming, local superintendent of marine, and the evidence has forwarded on to the department in Wellington.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7444, 19 May 1911, Page 4
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213SEAMAN DROWNED New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7444, 19 May 1911, Page 4
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