KETCH IN A STORM.
TOSBED AND BATTERED.
SEAMAN’S GALLANT ACT
DIVES INTO ANGRY SEA,
United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Oct. 3. 10.15 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 3. After being tossed and battered by huge seas in Bass Strait the auxiliary ketch Hawk, of 85 tons, laboured into Williamstown. T\e mainmast had snapped off four feet from the deck, and was lashed to the side. Captain Tives, the master, and five of the crew were saved only by the •courageous act of Harold Sawford, one of the seamen, who risked his life by diving overboard during the height of the squall to lash the broken mast to the ketch’s side. If this had not been done immediately the splintered mast would have rammed the ketch, and it is considered certain that she would have foundered.
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Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19066, 3 October 1933, Page 5
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