MOTOR LAUNCH SWAMPED

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 28, 18 September 1911, Page 5

MOTOR LAUNCH SWAMPED

PERILOUS EXPERIENCE. (Ter Press Association.) Christchurch, September 17. The motor launch Kingfisher, earned • : >y Ikswick Bros., war swam;;--! mi :iu* Sumner bar ti ; s morning. 'lh-» launch was taken round from Lvtrdcir \*s(ciday, but the bar was dar.gcrods, an! ere return j to pint ibi« morning She appeared again e' 1 ’ Sumner, evidently with tire inten+ion of going ac-’-oss the bar. A strojg nor'-wester was raising a big roll; a.rd signals wee against her, and the pilot, endeavoured to make it c,e.«r ti it a crossing would be extremely penlo'.;>, I).it the crew decided to take the *a* and stood in-. When she \ as faivlv in the roll a big wave curls"* over lu>r, stepping the engine, and the cmv cast anchor. The Sumner lit/boat was promptly manned, and put elf, an.l the crew were taken ashore w*ca >u • e little trouble. The laumvi bad to leleft at anchor, and this afternoon she was just floating. It was thought probable that when the tide went down she would bump heavily and that she might easily bo wrecked.