ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
MAN LOST OVERBOARD.
Per Phkss ■Association.
Wellington, March 28
An ordinary seaman was lost from the steamer Westmeath on Wednesday, en route from Gisborne to Waitara. The man was'H. Vincent, aged nineteen, a native of Avonmouth. No one saw the accident, but Vincent was working on the boat deck cleaning paintwork, and presumably fell overboard. When he was missed a search was made, the vessel cruising about for an hour and a half, but no .sign was seen of Vincent, and the voyage was resumed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 29 March 1915, Page 7
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87ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 29 March 1915, Page 7
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