LAUNCH DRIFTS HELPLESS

Taranaki Daily News, 14 December 1932, Page 6

LAUNCH DRIFTS HELPLESS

WELLINGTON MEN RESCUED

DAY-LONG ORDEAL IN COOK STRAI CRAFT STOVE IN DURING RESCUB. NEWTON ELM SEAMEN PRAISED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last. Night. After drifting helplessly with a disabled engine nearly all day and wtan hopes of rescue were rapidly vanishing, a 20ft. launch with two men aboard was sighted this afternoon from the tramp steamer Newton Elm when about seven miles off Pencarrow Head. The Newton Elm, which , was Cook Strait on a voyage from Auckland to Westport brought the men teethe vicinity of the harbour entrance, they were transferred to the . Gqver ? ment steamer Janie Seddon and brought The two men aboard the launch^ were G. Hudson and C. Usher, both of Petone. They left Paremata in the launch about four o’clock this morning for Petone. When off Sinclair Head the engine stopped due to water reaching, the magneto. The launch drifted until p.m., when it was sighted from the Newton Elm. ’•?>.. , During the rescue operations a plank of the launch was stove in and thecraft was cast adrift. The rescued men highly praised the seamanship of the Newton Elm’s master, officers and crew ana express gratitude for the great kindnesa received.