FISHERMAN’S DARING
HUMAN PLUG WHICH PREVENTED SHIP SINKING.
Badly leaking, and in imminent danger of becoming waterlogged, the trawler Glance, from Fowey, which formed part of a large fleet of drifters and hookers, laden with herring and mackerel, was saved from foundering through the gallantry of one of the crew. The vessel had been holed on Plymouth rocks, and great difficulty was experienced in making harbour. With highly commendable pluck, which was followed by a great feat of endurance, Ernie Brown, a fisherman, volunteered to force his body into the hole, and so prevent, to a great extent the inrush of water. His body was bound with sailcloth and old clothing, and he wedged himself into the hole, whore for four hours he remained waist-deep in water. “Someone had to do it,’’ remarked •Brown to an interviewer. “So I stopped there while the others worked at the pumps. I had one fag, and for the last two hours I could not feel my legs at .all.” When manoeuvred into liarhour the Glance was nearly sinking, but ißrown’s heroic act had just saved the ship, which is valued at £6OO.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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189FISHERMAN’S DARING Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1920, Page 4
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