MARINERS IN PERIL
CAPSIZE OF SCOW LENA LONG PULL IN CHOPPY SEA CHIPPING has been warned to watch for the drifting scow Lena, 19 tons, which overturned off Colville, in the Firth of Thames, on Friday afternoon. Laden with granite from a quarry at Moehau, the Lena encountered rough seas in the beat across toward Waiheke, and the master, Captain PI. A. Kasper, finally decided to run back to Colville. Five miles from there, however, the vessel capsized, throwing the master and engineer into the water. Relieved of her heavy deck cargo, the scow .floated bottom up, and the shipwrecked mariners clung to her stern until they were able to climb into the dinghy, which drifted close to them, and row laboriously into Colville, which was reached after an exhausting pulL
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 135, 29 August 1927, Page 16
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