DRIFTING EIGHT HOURS
MISHAP TO LAUNCH TOWED TO PORT BY SCHOONER The small 40-foot fishing launch Foam broke down yesterday afternoon off the coast several miles north of Kawau Island, and was towed to port this morning by the Ronaki. accident occurred at about three o’clock in the afternoon, through one of the high tension sparking plugs blowing out. The vesel drifted about helplessly for nearly eight hours before being sighted by the Ronaki, bound from Portland to Auckland with a full cargo of cement from the Wilson Cement Company’s works. The weather remained fine and the sea calm, so the crew of the disabled launch went on with their fishing, securing about a dozen baskets of fish while waiting for help to come. The Foam is one of the seine-netting fleet of small fishing vessels, and there ■were three men on board at the time of the accident. She fishes for the recently- formed combine small fishermen.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 14
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