"BUT FOR THE WORK OF KAHANAMOKU, WE WOULD ALL HAVE PERISHED," DUKE'S HEROIC 1925 RESCUE AT CORONA DEL MAR
"Riverside Men Perish on Fishing Trip When Boat is Upset by Ground Swell," by A.B. Berry, was a front page Orange County Register story on June 15, 1925. This version has been slightly edited. * * * Fire men were drowned and 12 others narrowly escaped a similar fate yesterday morning at 6:45 o’clock, when a heavy ground swell, said to have been more than 20 feet high, capsized the 40-foot fis...