ADRIFT ON RAFT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19042, 16 June 1936, Page 5

ADRIFT ON RAFT

SAILOR MISSING

MOTOR BOAT WRECKED

BRISBANE, June 3. Somewhere between Gould Island and Curdwell, off the North Queensland coast, a man is afloat on an improvised raft, with no food and only a bottle ol water. He has been missing since yesterday morning. The man is a German sailor named Carl Schmidt, who, with a companion, Lindsay Bowery, bought a motor boat and left for Dunk Island on May 26, en route to Mackay.

Last Thursday night they camped, on an unhabitated island near Gould Island. The next morning, shortly after leaving the island, the boat ran into a heavy squall and became unmanageable, and was washed on to tlie rocks at Gould Island and smashed. Both men scrambled ashore and stayed there till yesterday, when Schmidt made a raft from parts of the smashed boat, and with one paddle and a bottle of water, set out for Cardwell, 12 miles across the bay to seek help for his wrecked companion. This morning the steamer Kintore was passing Gould Island when the crew saw a man frantically waving and calling. A boat was sent ashore, and the man, who proved to be Bowery, was taken off. He was taken to Cardwell, where lie gave the police particulars of his missingi companion.