ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA
BOATS IN DIFFICULTIES LAUNCH TO THE RESCUE Two open boats driven by outboard motors got 'into difficulties off the Waihi Beach on Sunday and were rescued by the launch Defender and finally towed to safety. When the boats went out to fish on the Hikurangi Reef, about nine miles from the Waihi Beach, the sea was calm. Later a strong north-westerly wind brought up a rough sea. The occupants of the first boat, Mr. Richard Hovell and Mr. Alexander James Pollock, after pulling up the anchor, failed to get the engine started. The Defender, with Mr. I. T. Fall well in charge, went to their aid. Attaching a tow line, the launch began the tow toward calmer waters when the ring in the bow pulled out. Contact with the nearly swamped boat was again made and the tow resumed. It was then that the occupants of the second -boat. Mr. Henry Caundal and Mr. Leslie Groshinski, were -discovered also to be in difficulties. The strong wind was -carrying their little craft rapidly further out to sea. The launch quickly caught up with the dangerously tossing boat, and both boats were brought into Mataura Bay. Later Mr. Hovell’s boat was towed along the coast to the Waihi Beach.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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211ADRIFT IN ROUGH SEA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19820, 23 December 1938, Page 11
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