YOUTHS' LUCKY ESCAPE
DRIFTED TO SEA IN DINGHY
LOCATED BY AIRMAN
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
CHEISTCHTTECH, This Day.
An aeroplane and a lifeboat were requisitioned in the rescue of two young men, Alfred Cobden and Eric Vincent, who put out from the "Waimairi Surf Club yesterday morning in one of the club's small boats. These young men, with two friends, D. Cobden and Dunn, were rowing in the surf for some time, and were about to make for home when they lost an oar. Dunn and, D. Cobden. dived after the oar and caught it,-but found that the.current and the wind had carried the boat out of reach. They therefore made for the shore to get help' Squadron-Leader Findlay located the boat about eight miles from shore and the Sumner lifeboat was launched and raced to the rescue. The lifeboat took the drifting boat in tow and brought it to shore.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 36, 13 February 1933, Page 8
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