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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

NEWS photo tan Smith

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KOREAN CREW members of the ship Eastern Countess wrestle in the surf at Ambleside as they prepare for their picnic
in the park. What started out as a fun day turned out to be anything but for the seamen. See story below.

KOREAN PARTY

DRAWS POLICE

Beer confiscated, boat beached at Ambleside

A LIFEBOAT full of Korean sailors
picnic in at Ambleside Park in West Vancouver
Wednesday but not before tangling with West
Vancouver and Port of Vancouver Police and

harbor authorities.

The men were members
of the crew of the ship
bastern C Ountess, at anchor
off Vancouver while waiting
to take on cargo

By MARK HAMIL TON

tok bing

Vancouver Poltoe got of the

situation was when

tive spotted the = lifetuat
landing on the beach Polme
went to investigate and then
called in Port Pole

The Koreans werent
aware that they couldnt
beach them boat at the park
Nor that simply hopping in a
hfeboat wasn't the proper
way to go ashore ina foreign
port

While that was caplaimed
to them, pohce were also
busy conficating 74° bottles
of Karin beer that the sailors
had brought with them

The crew members were
ordered to return to thes
ship where a member of the
Harbor board was waiting to
cxaplain proper pore
procedure

Hy the came this had been
caplained to them the tide
had gone oul leaving the
lifeboat high and dry

So, the crew got thetr
plone after all as they settled
down to wait for the tide to
come back in

When it did however ont
dhdn’t end them peoblems

The crew got the lifebsar

tcfloated but od ‘

caperteneced  dttfteul sos ue
were overpowered by the
curtent dnstead of heading
south west toward = the

Fastern © Ountess the boat

was swept south cast and
under the Lions Grate Bridge

A tugboat was dispatched
to fetch the boat and tow the
sailors home