THREE SAVED AFTER
FISH BOAT SINKING

    SAN DIEGO, Sept. 8 (AP)--
    Three fishermen, adrift in shark-infested waters 25 miles west of San Diego after their 49 foot boat struck a submerged object and sank, were rescued late today by a Navy destroyer.
    The survivors, who spent 15 hours on a raft and a dinghy, are Wilhelm Kellerman of Seattle, owner of the boat; Douglas New of 5625 Lime St., Long Beach, and Fred B. Lloyd of San Diego. None suffered injury.
    The destroyer George E. Davis, returning from training exercises off San Clemente Island north of here, picked the three men out of the fog on its radarscope, and its captain, Lt. Comdr. D. P. Wynkoop, maneuvered his ship alongside for the rescue.
    Kellerman said his boat, the Chinook Sportfisher, crashed into some submerged object about 2 a.m. today and sank about an hour and a half later. The three had time to make a raft by lashing together empty oil drums. They kept afloat on the raft and aboard the dinghy they had been towing.

Source:

Unknown, "Three Saved After Fish Boat Sinking," The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Sunday, 9 September, 1951, p. 18.