COLLISION AT SEA
Fisherman’s Leap To Safety SINKING OF LAUNCH (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRiIiSTOHURCH, May 2. Two Stunner fishermen barely saved their lives by a desperate leap when the 37ft. fishing launch Whiworri was sunk in collision with the examination steamer John Anderson off Lyttelton Heads early this moimiiig. Manned- by her owner, Mr. Erie Williams Congreve, the Whiworri left Sumner for the flshingg rounds at 3.20 a.m., and was off Lyttelton Heads shortly afterward. A searchlight on shore flashed to the boat and she stopped. Dazled by the light the crew did not see the John Anderson till she loomed up out of the darkness right upon them and crashed into the launch amidships. Badly holed, the ’Whiworri began to sink rapidly under the men’s feet. Though badly hampered by heavy clothing and oilskins tbe men made a desperate leap which landed them aboard the John Anderson. The fish-ing-boat went down as they left b-er. From the John Anderson the men were later transferred to another fishingboat, which took them to Lyttelton. Neither was injured.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 11
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176COLLISION AT SEA Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 186, 3 May 1940, Page 11
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