WRECK OF YACHT
VERDICT AT INQUEST Christchurch. Aug. 29. j Inquests into the deaths ol three men who lost their lives in the wreck of the yacht Pera at Sumner on the night !uf 21st June were held before the coroner, Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M.. who returned a verdict that the men were accidentally drowned while trying to refloat the grounded vessel. The men drowned were three of the crew of the yacht. Messrs Ernest VVil- j liam Dobbie, aged 23, an airman, Percy Benjamin Dobbie. aged 25. a motor mechanic, and Leslie Joseph Charles Collett, a builder, all of Christchurch. Suggestions that there was some un- J necessary delay on the part of some j members of the Sumner Lifeboat In- ! | slitution were made by Mr William j Thomas Dobbie. father of two of the men, but the coroner remarked that all concerned were obviously under strain at the time and definite times could not be fixed He was, however, satisfied that there was no suggestion , of unpreparedness, incompetence. or ( inefficiency on the part of the lifeboat crew, and that they did all that was possible in the circumstances.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 4
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