NAVAL CADETS DROWNED.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 2

NAVAL CADETS DROWNED.

A MATE'S HEROIC ACTION. A boating fatality, by which two men lost their lives, 'occurred at Jervis Bay, New South Wales, on Sunday, 19th met.

A party of five—John Hennigan, Dominick Healey, Alexander Carter, William Flowers, and Earl A. G. Boyd '—sailed from the Naval College to Huskisson in the morning. They left on the return trip at 2 o'clock. When some distance out a southerly squall struck the boat, overturning it. The occupants climbed on to the boat, and Earl A. G. Boyd attempted to swim ashore. He was seized with cramp, aud returned to the boat, and found that Healey had been washed otf. Ho fastened* the survivors to the boat, and then swam three and a-half miles to land, and walked four miles through the bush to the Naval College. Every available motor launch from there and Huskisson went in search of the drifting boat. The overtimed craft was found at 2 a.m.. Fifteen minutes before the arrival of the rescue boat Hennigan became exhausted and was lost. Car-, ter and Flowers were taken to the college, the former being still in a critical condition. The bodies of the drowned men hove not been recovered. Hennigan and Healey were two of the crew of the naval* cadet training ship, Franklin, and were unmarried. Boyd's plucky action aroused great admiration throughout the district. Next day he was none the worse for his long and heroic swim.