TRAWLER VICTIMS
SIXTEEN SEAMEN DROWNED. THIRTY-ONE CHILDREN LEFT FATHERLESS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 20. The loss of sixteen members of the crew of the trawler Wigmore is confirmed, leaving thirty-one children fatherless. The skipper, Walter Bore, leaves a widow and five children, and a deckhand, Clayton, six children, of whom the eldest daughter is engaged to be marred and acted as mother. The dead skipper's brother John reported the loss of the Wigmore from a northern port.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 6
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84TRAWLER VICTIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1939, Page 6
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