CREW OF KETCH SWALLOWED BY WATERSPOUT
(Press Association—Copyright.) # Received I I a.m. Si f To-day. Swallowed by a waterspout off the Papuan coast recently, the crew of the ketch Lytton perished with the exception of a white man who swam five miles to sucre. The tragedy was described by Mr. S. Brown, who arrived at Sydney on the Macdhu:'. He said the Lytton was five miles from the coast, fishing, with Captain Bruce Hamilton in charge of a crew of nine natives. Without warning the vessel was gripped in a waterspout and swept below the surface. 7he natives, although good swimmers, were so terrorstricken that they made no attempt to save themselves, and all were drowned. Captain Hamilton, reached the shore after a seven hours’ swim through the shark-in fested waters. )■
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 172, 3 July 1936, Page 5
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