MOTOR BOAT DISASTER.
ELEVEN PERSONS DROWNED. SINKS IN TEN MINUTES. ; By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Melbourne, Jan. 10. Eleven persons were drowned in Hopkins’ River, at Warrnambool, on Sunday. Eighty persons were journeying on a pleasure trip in a motor boat which sprang a leak and sank in ten minutes. Eight bodies have been recovered and three are missing. The victims are mostly local residents. The motor boat began to leak immediately after starting and filled so fast that an effort to run ashore was unavailing, the vessel drifting into deep water. The bulk of the passengers, however, managed to scramble ashore many being badly exhausted.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1921, Page 5
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105MOTOR BOAT DISASTER. Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1921, Page 5
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