SAVED FROM SINKING LAUNCH
WELLINGTON RESCUE AT NIGHT.
COASTAL VESSEL ANSWERS CALL.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Dec. 15.
As the Kapiti was leaving Wellington late last night for Wanganui a call was received to go to a launch which had broken down in the harbour. Not only had the launch engine stopped, but the craft had sprung a leak, and by the time the two men, Alexander Robert Pratt and Sydney John Hodge,' were picked up by the Kapiti the water was up to the flywheel. The master of the Kapiti decided to buoy.the launch near Point Halswell, and here it submerged and eventually sank. The men were returning from a fishing expedition off Baring Head when the trouble overtook them. The Kapiti returned to put them ashore.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1933, Page 4
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