STEAMER WRECKED
SOUTH 0P SYDNEY HEADS
ALL MEMBERS OF CREW SAFE.
SHORE REACHED ALONG ROPE OVER SURF.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY. This Day.
Wireless advice has been received from the master that the small wooden coastal vessel Belbowrie, of 218 tons, ran on a reef off Maroubra Point at about 9 o'clock last night. The message stated that help was urgently required and thal if it were not given the ship would have to be abandoned. The pilot vessel Captain Cook immediately went to the scene, about four miles south of Sydney Heads. The Belbowrie later broke in two and'is believed to be a total loss. The crew were not rescued by breeches buoy, as was at 'first reported. but made their way, hand over hand, along a rope through sixty feet of boiling surf, to the shore. Captain Dixon, the last to leave the ship, became exhausted while still over the water and, with a cry, ‘‘l’m done," let go the line and fell into the surf. A number of men dashed in and' dragged him to land.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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184STEAMER WRECKED Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 January 1939, Page 6
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