ACCIDENT TO AN OIL LAUNCH.
(By Telegraph — JPress Association} Ni'iw Plymouth, Yesterday. The occupants of a privately-owned oil launch had an exciting experience on Sunday. They left the Breakwater on a fishing cruise, but when off the town the engine broke down, and the. launch drifted, an attempt to aachor her failing. By means of a bucket utilised as a eea anchor a dangerous reef was cleared, but the sea was two rough to permit of the party landing. All the afternoon the vessel drifted eastward, and about five o'clock she was driven ashore on Sandy Beach, near the Waiwakaiho River. Two of the occupants—Avery and Humphries-—narrowly escaped drowning, being rescured with some difficulty. The launch is badly damaged and lies on the reef.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 8038, 10 January 1905, Page 6
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