NO TRACE FOUND
MISSING AUCKLAND YACHTSMEN VAIN SEARCH YESTERDAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. April 19. In spite of widespread continuation of the search throughout today for three members of the Royal Naval Reserve whose small yacht was found off’ Tiritiri on Wednesday night, no trace of. the missing men had been found late tonight. It is now feared that they have been lost. Captain Aspden, master of the auxiliary ketch Endeavour, which picked up the overturned boat, returned with it to Auckland from Portland.
He said that though the wind was light at the time the mishap must have occurred, there as a choppy sea running. and this would have made it difficult to retain a hold on an upturned yacht.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1940, Page 6
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