Pacific Yacht

Chase Drama

’ter having been flown from oik Island, two men, Derrick on, 31, and Daniel Barrie, 25, remanded until May 7 in Syd i Central Court of Petty Sessions 29 on a charge of having n the 50 ft steel-hulled ketch hera” from Lord Howe Island tie night of April 10.

E ketch belongs to Mr. Peter Fenton, of Sydney, who was on irst stage of a cruise round the i when the ketch was allegedly a. r. Fenton, with his wife Patricia, year-old daughter Penelope, a ey journalist, Mr. Charles r, and the two New Zealanders Sydney in the Cythera on March ie Fentons, Sriber and the New mders went ashore at Lord Howe d on April 10 to dine at the rees Guesthouse. They later ded a dance at the RSL hall, r. Fenton left the dance about ight, and it was then that he i that the Cythera was missing, it an hour later, the ketch was ;d up on the Department of Civil lion’s radar about 15 miles out Lord Howe and heading north, ter, port authorities at Norfolk d, Melbourne, Brisbane, Wollon , Newcastle and New Zealand notified of the theft of the i, and the Commonwealth Navi n Department radioed a descrip of her to all ships within 5,000 i of Sydney. Crews of aircraft ing the Pacific were also asked ok out for the ketch, i April 17, the pilot of a TAI air radioed Norfolk Island that he sighted the ketch north of Nor > Cascade Bay. )rf oik’s Administrator, Major :ral R. H. Wordsworth, then ed the 1,062-ton French freighter rado del Mar, with Sgt. Colin ion, of the Commonwealth e, and Administration officials, to p intercept the ketch.

'ter a chase, during which the rado del Mar rammed the era, the two men were arrested later confined in the Norfolk d lock-up. ie following week-end, Mr. and Fenton and two friends, Messrs.

Masche and Gus McClemens, to Norfolk and began to sail the aged Cythera back to Sydney.