COLLISION IN HARBOUR
BEACH REACHED JUST IN TIME PASSENGER LAUNCH DAMAGED.’ AUCKLAND PASSENGERS’ ESCAPE. By • Telegraph.—Press Association. ; Auckland, Feb. 11. The trans-harbour launch which maintains a service between the city and Northcote after midnight collided about 2 o’clock this morning with a hulk and had to be beached in a sinking condition. The man in charge was following his custom of collecting the tickets of passengers, who numbered seven, including four women, when the, launch for some reason curved round and struck the hulk, Some windows in-the cabin were smashed and a woman was slightly cut. The seams of the launch opened and the craft began to sink. The" master ordered the passengers into the stern, opened the throttle and beached the launch in 12 minutes, just as the . water reached the level of the flywheel. A man passenger waded ashore and found a dinghy, and eventually the party was landed none the worse, except for damage to the women’s evening dresses.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1933, Page 9
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