A Launch Capsized.
(Per Press Associafion.) GKSBORXE, July 18. Whilst the steamer Herald's oillaunch was towing Umber ashore yesterday the engines stopped. The chief oflicer was in charge, and was attending to the engines, when a wave caught the bout, which capsized and sunk. The chief officer was picked up by another boat. He required medical assistance, but has recovered. The boat drifted ashore badly damaged. The engines were taken out, as' she was too ihadly injured to repair. Later. The second (not chief) oilicer of the steamer Herald -had a narrow escape. When the launch capsized he was the only occupant, and was under the covering, with one hand on the fly-wheel to start the engine when the boat was suddenly carried over. The oflicer was thrown against the side and carried down with the sinking boat. He eventually got free, and pulling oil his overcoat and mulller, struck out for the shore, but finding he could not get through the breakers swam out, and was rescued 'by vhe ship's boat. He was much exhausted, but is about again, though a few days' rest is necessary. Tho Herald reached Gisborne at 9 p.m. and left for south at 11.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 167, 19 July 1904, Page 3
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200A Launch Capsized. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 167, 19 July 1904, Page 3
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