Seamen Get A Ducking
The sudderi discharge of a large, volume of condenser water from tfie 'lide df tfie steamer expresf Rangatira at Lyttelton — eaused - 8 punt, 6'fi \(rfii6fi tvbf& fbur memberS of the.ctew, who were painting the si'de df tne shfp, to swamp and sink; Three df the. men had ofi long. sed WtitS; th© weighfc df Which threat- ! to drag thertr down, but they h^lpedpach dfhbr td Shbd tfie fibbts, £he|r' i\vefb fnen- able to swim td Iffelines lowered1 from the deck df the ship. Two of them lost theif fidbfl 8ui' Mi wefe iiMle tfib wafsb for their ducking. •' ;
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1949, Page 4
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102Seamen Get A Ducking Chronicle (Levin), 2 April 1949, Page 4
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