MAN AND DAUGHTER DROWNED
CAPSIZE OF A DINGHY TRAGEDY OFF PETONE BEACH (P.A.) Wellington. Jan. 9. When a small dinghy carrying four persons capsized 200 yards off the Petone Beach to-day, at 3.35 p.m., t.wo of the occupants, a man and his young daughter, were drowned. They were: Mr. Richard Cole, a carpenter, aged 27, of Stokes Valley. Marlene Cole, aged 7.
The other two in the boat. Dorothy McCoy and Frank McCoy, both young children of 5 Beach Street, Petone, reached the shore safely.
Mr. Cole was bringing the dinghy back to'the shore when he lost an oar. and in trying to retrieve it, capsized the boat. A resident of Petone living opposite the beach was attracted by the screams of children, xwing to the scene, he found Frank McCoy clinging to the dinghy and Marlene Cole, floating face downwards, in the water. Dorothy McCoy had managed to reach the shore by herself. There was no sign of Mr. Richard Cole.
A doctor and a free ambulance driver applied artificial respiration to Marlene Cole for nearly two hours after she had been brought in, but with no result.
A yacht and a power-driven dinghy, and later, a police launch, searched for Mr. Cole’s body, but it had not been found by nightfall.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 8, 10 January 1946, Page 3
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