DINGHY OVERTURNS
THREE PEOPLE DROWNED BRISBAXE, May 20. i Three people were drowned when a l sailing dinghv capsized in Moreton Bav I yesterdav. Tlie party, consisting of t w/j ' Duteh otfieers and two girls, was thrown I into the water about two miles from t the shore. The sole survivor was a 20 ! vear-old girl who was rescued after ! spending almost seven hon-s in tiowater clingiiig to the uptnriied boat. I A plane, searching for other sur- | vivors, sighted live people standing np | to their necks in water on a sandbank. | When i>ieke.d up they e.x])lai.ned that ! their boat had struck a sandbank and l.liad foiuidercd. They were Jeft- .■ stand i ing on the submerged eraft while the j tide slow ly rose.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1946, Page 5
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