STRANDED TRAWLER
SALVAGE EFFORT FAILS Efforts to refloat the stranded trawler Waiwcra from Sulphur Bay, Whale Island, failed on Wednesday night, although repairs were completed, the vessel being too deep in the sand. The crews of the trawlers Waiwera and Joan worked all day Thursday under difficult conditions digging a deep trench round the ship in the hot sands. As they dug the men worked knee deep in almost boiling water from thermal springs and frequently had lo drop their shovels and run into I the surf to cool down.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 3
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90STRANDED TRAWLER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20098, 18 November 1939, Page 3
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