DERELICT YACHT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20184, 12 March 1931, Page 8

DERELICT YACHT.

REPORT FROM STEAMER OPIHI.

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NELSON, March 11. The steamer Opihi reported sighting, 200 yards off Pepin, Idsndy Cable Say, at 11 to'clock this 'morning, a ■' small sailing- craft, atiout 30 feet in length on her beam ends. Two' masts weiie partly out of the water. The jib, was set, but the other sail# were furled* The boat^was painted .white on '> the bottom., A. rod and green flag was, flying 6n a mast. The boat ,w*s jtOo near the shore for tho steamer to venture closer, and it was too rough to launch a boat.' Seeing no signs of life the steamer came on to Nelson. The pilot launch was dispatched immediately, but those on board saw no. signs of a bobt. A considerable eea is running. Settlers are searching the coast. 1 \ : »■ r'. ' , ANXIETY IN NEW PLYMOUTH.' /> 1 ,' i< -- t i >' ' : (P&B8S ASSOCIATION ; TULBO-BAU.) . ; ] NEW PLYMOUTH, March'll.. | With the report to hand that a small yicht' with sails set, has been sighted upside down, ten. miles north-east of ! Nelson, by a passing steamer, fear is felt for the safety of two ypung mon-t-S, Silvester, a lecturer at Canterbury College, and M. C. B. Hudson, a student of Canterbury College—who, left New' Plymouth last Thursday in ail 18-fo'ot yawl-rigged yacht bound for Lyttelton, after the vacation. Hudson is a son of Mr J. B. Of Eltham. The boat, which left New Plymouth at 10.80 p.m. on Thursday, was a dirty white colour and flew a green flag on which two letters were joined. It had a green deckhouse. Instead of a, centreboard a piece of loebmotive rail had been fixed to the boat to give it weight. Therft. were two bunks on board, and two tanks for the storage of water. | One of 'the anchors was a disused lawnmower. The boat waß dost reported by tho steamer Kaitoa off Cape. Egmont. It was the intention of thg men to call