LAUNCH BURNED TO WATER’S EDGE
OCCUPANTS FORCED INTO SEA. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, March 15. The captain of the scow Wanderer, seeing a flare inside Kawau Island, found three men clinging to a launch which had been burnt to the water’s edge. The men had already Keen an hour in the water. The launch sank five minutes after fhoy were saved. They were from Matakana, Ixmnd on a fishing trip. It was fine weather, with a calm sea, when tho launch became suddenly enveloped in flames, apparently from the engine-room. The occupants jumped overboard, and remained in the water till help arrived.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 146, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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102LAUNCH BURNED TO WATER’S EDGE Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 146, 16 March 1921, Page 5
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