BOY ADRIFT IN CHANNEL
WANTED TO JOIN NAVY
LONDON. Aug. M
A 15-year-old boy who had run away I'rom home to be a sailor was picked up in the Channel in a small canoe vest en lay. The rescue was reported last night hv Mr. Basil Brooke, a. member of Sen View S'nch.l Club, when his 40-ton motor yacht Bine Haze put back to Sea View, Isle of Wight. The yacht, with a racing yacht in tow, was hound for the West of England. Two miles and a-half off Sto Catherine's Point, the southernmost point of the Isle of Wight, yesterday afternoon, an apparently empty oft. canoe was seen tossing about, in a lumpy sea.
-doing alongside, the crew found the boy, the son of Mr, and Mrs. ('. .!. Rumsey, of Brading, Isle of Wight, curled up in the bottom asleep under a sheet of canvas. When awakened he said that lie wished to enter the navy.
lie had been reported as missing since Wednesday.
On Wednesday a nine-year-old Brighton boy, found asleep on the, beach after being missing for three days, said he rowed out to sea in the hope of joining a steamer, as he wanted to be a sailor.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 15
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