TRAWLER SPRINGS LEAK
ABANDONED BY CREW VESSEL APPARENTLY DOOMED (Per United Press Association.) GISBORNE, June 8. At 3 o’clock Sanford’s steam trawler Serfib sprang a leak three miles off Waipiro Bay. Captain Flett was at the wheel when the mate,_ Mr Black, reported that water was coming into the engine room very fast. Within half an hour the vessel was in such a bad way that the captain and crew of nine decided to leave in the dinghy. Owing to the heavy swell the dinghy wag damaged in launching. Whilst two of the men kept bailing four rowed in the direction of the open bay, where lights were seen. Mr Brennan’s launch Huia was at anchor there, and Mr Brennan took all on board, and landed them at Tokomaru Bay at 9 o’clock. The Serfib left Hick’s Bay this morning intending to trawl off Tokomaru Bay and Tolaga Bay to-night, and return to Auckland on Sunday night. The Serfib was still afloat when she was last seen drifting towards East Cape, hut she appeared to be doomed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21975, 9 June 1933, Page 10
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