YACHT TEDDY WRECKED

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1932, Page 6

YACHT TEDDY WRECKED

NORWEGIANS’ MISFORTUNE TAMBS AND HIS WIFE INJURED. e i ' TWO CHILDREN ESCAPE UNHURT. VESSEL CAST ON KAWAU ISLAND. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Slight.' Disaster befell the Norwegian yacht Teddy this afternoon, the vessel being wrecked, on Challenger, or Little Kawau Island. Thff owner and. skipper, Erling Tambs, his wife and two children were saved after a harrowing ordeal. Mrs. Tambs, who was rescued while clinging to some wreckage, received a severe cut on the head and Tambs was cut deeply on the leg by the rocks. The children escaped injury. All are staying at Mansion House, Kawau Island. The accident happened about 1.30 p.m., the Teddy being caught in the heavy swell and. dashed on the rocks. The vessel left Auckland last Saturday for Brisbane, and having called at Kawau Island she left at 10 a.m. today in continuation of her voyage. She was sighted shortly before 1.30 p.m. by the steamer Duchess and was then sailing close to the easterly point of Challenger Island. Apparently all was well. . '

A small fishing launch, the Ola, owned by Albert Emtege of Kawau Island, who was on board, with a companion, cruised into tl<p vicinity of the Teddy and. it was seen that the vessel was pounding on the rocks at the south-east side of Challenger Island. The Ola immediately rushed; to the stricken craft. Mrs. Tambs was discovered, clinging to a plank on the seaward, side of the Teddy, which had its stem hard and. fast in the cleft of the--rocks. The boom was broken off and. the seas were washing across the vessel.

Mrs. Tambs was taken from the water bruised and. exhausted. As the Ola approached Tambs was scrambling on to the rocks with his three-year-old son and the baby, and by the time he had placed, them in safety Mrs. Tambs had been picked, up. Tambs and the children, who were accompanied, by their dog mascot, were then taken on board the Ola. Wreckage from the yacht was floating in all directions, and by this time the craft was full of water and listing to seaward on her beam ends. While the rescue was in progress the coastal motor-vessel Coronation came in sight, bound from Whangarei Heads to Auckland. At 2.15 p.m., when the Ola was preparing to leave for Kawau Island with the survivors on board, the Coronation came alongside and offered to help. Th© survivors were sitting in th© cockpit of the Ola and appeared to be quit© cheerful. They elected, to return to Kawau. / . The skipper of the launch told. Captain Robertson of the Coronation that the Teddy was proceeding out of the south passage in a light southerly breeze and. a heavy swell when she missed th© stays and was swept ashore. Further assistance not being needed, the Coronation came on to Auckland end the Ola proceeded to Kawau, where Mrs. Tambs and the children were cared for by the ladies at Mansion House. Tonight they were progressing .favourably. At 4 p.m. Tambs set out from Kawau Island again in th© launch Ola to inspect the wreck. When he returned to Kawau he stated that it was impossible to 1 save anything.