LIFE-BOAT CAPSIZES.
No. 6 life-boat, which was in charge of J. Morrison, fourth ' engineer, collided with some floating wreckage close to the steamer, and. subsequently struck rocks in the same vicinity, being thereby capsized. Those on the mate’s boat noticed the occurrence and were quickly on the scene, rescuing all the occupants of the boat, who all landed here yesterday. The captain stood by the vessel to the last, and was eventually washed overboard by a sea, being picked up by a waiting life-boat. After he was picked up he was seen to direct the picking up of several women and children who were in the water. The mate’s boat, which was crowded, then shaped a course for Hohoura, reaching here at 12.30 p.m. to-day, nothing more being seen of the captain’s boat. The mate or those with him have no information which would indicate what has become of the other boats, except that they saw one boat under sail heading for Hohoura, while CaptW. D. Reid, Superintendent of Mercantile Marine at this port, who was a passenger, and who left in the first boat, said that he knew of a landing place at Three Kings.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XX, 15 November 1902, Page 1238
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196LIFE-BOAT CAPSIZES. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue XX, 15 November 1902, Page 1238
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