Inquest Into Drownings After Wreck of Yacht
Christchurch, Aug. 31. Inquests into the deaths of three men who lost their lives in the wreck of the yacht Pera at Sumner on the night of June 21 were held before the coroner, Mr. E. C. Levvey, S.M., who returned a verdict that the men were accidentally drhwned while trying to refloat the grounded vessel. The men drowned were three of the crew of the yacht, Messrs. Ernest. William Dobbie. aged 23, an airman, Percy Benjamin Dobbie, aged 25, a motor mechanic, and Leslie Joseoh. Charle3 Collett, a builder, all of Christchurch. Suggestions that there was some unnecessary delay on the part of some members of the Sumner Lifeboat Institution were made by Mr. William Thomas Dobbie, father of two of the men, but the coroner said that all concerned were obviously under strain at the time and definite times could not be fixed. He was, however, satisfied that there was no suggestioni of unpreparedness, incompetence, or inefficieney on the part of the lifeboat crew, and that they did all that was possible in the circumstances.
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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1942, Page 4
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