FATAL ACCIDENT.
HOW AN A.B. WAS DROWNED, (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, November 3. The police were advised to-day that Chas. Stanley, a single man, 35 years old, employed as an A.B. on the steamer Kotaro, was drowned at 6 p.m." yesterday at Waikawa, as the vessel was leaving for Dunedin. It was necessary when swinging the vessel round to throw out a small anchor to keep her bow off the ■hank. Stanley went about 50 yards from the steamer in a boat by himself and threw the anchor out, but it did not clear the boat properly. In endeavouring to clear it ho fell overboard. He immediately got hold of the boat, but it turned upside down. He got on top of' it, and would have been rescued had he remained there, but ho struck _ (Jut. for the ship. He had gone but a little distance when he called and sank, apparently being unable to swim. Ho was drowned in 8 feet of water, and had he struck out for the shore instead of for the ship he would probably have been safe. Efforts to recover the body wero unsuccessful up till the time tho Kotaro left. Deceased lived at the Bluff when oB the vessel.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 973, 14 November 1910, Page 4
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206FATAL ACCIDENT. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 973, 14 November 1910, Page 4
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