AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE.
A KIGHT OF PERIL. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Marine Department has received the report of a narrow escape from drowning of the captain and second mate and three seamen of the barque Pelotas, in Guards Bay, on Wednesday last. The vessel, which is bound from Clarence River to Wellington, put into Guards Bay on Monday for shelter. On Wednesday the captain (Mr. Cozens) and the second mate and three sailors put off for shore in the lifeboat to obtain provisions. A squall capsized the boat, but all the men iiianaged to scramble on to the vessel's bottom, remaining there until she drifted ashore on Forsyth Island.
The party stayed on the rocks all •night, and on the following day were taken back to the vessel. The captain was much knocked about, and one man is laid up. Medical assistance and food had been sent from Picton.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 195, 16 August 1907, Page 2
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152AN EXCITING EXPERIENCE. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 195, 16 August 1907, Page 2
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