Sailor Dives Overboard in
MELBOURNE, Oct, 3. After being tossed and battered by huge S eas in Bass Strait, the auxiliary ketch Hawk, of S 3 tons, laboured into Williamstown. The mainmast had snapped off four feet front the deck, and was lashed to the aide. Thu lives of the master and five of tho crew had been saved only by the courageous act of Harold Sawford, one of tho seamen, who risked his life by diviner ,overboard during the height of a squall to lash tho broken mast to the ketch’s side. If this had not been done immediately, the splintered mast would have rammed tho ketch, and it is considered certain that she would have .foundered.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7279, 5 October 1933, Page 3
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118Sailor Dives Overboard in Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7279, 5 October 1933, Page 3
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