Of Tragedy and Valor
Roger Joshua Tugwell

65lb Butterfished Speard

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Fri 14 Feb 1958 

Two local spear fishermen. Messrs. Peter Wearne and Roger Tugwell, returning from a reef a mile offshore at dusk recently, saw a butterfish in about 2ft. of water. A soear eun was fired from their boat, and the fish was struck in the head and killed instantly. Afterwards when weighed the butterfish tipped the scales at 65 lbs., and measured 5ft. in length by 32in. around the girth.

•  Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Fri 29 Mar 1963 

•  Change of Business

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Fri 3 Mar 1967 

•  Page 4 

•  Yachting

•  Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

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•  Fri 22 Sep 1967 

•  Soldier's Third Tour of Duty

TWO RESCUED AT ENCOUNTER BAY

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Fri 26 Nov 1971 

A man and his son were rescued after their boat overturned near the Bluff at Encounter Bay last Monday. Fergus Warren, 53, lines- j man, of Fell Street, Yilki, and his son, Richard, 13, of the same address, were tending to craypots in surf between Wrights Island and the Bluff Monday afternoon when their 16 ft. cabin boat overturned. 

They were thrown into the water. Neither was wearing a life jacket. Their plight was seen by Mrs. R. P. Tilbrook, of Whaler's Haven, who called the Victor Harbour police who then notified the Victor Harbour Yacht Club Rescue Squadron. 

A rescue boat proceeded around Granite Island in rough seas to Wright Island where it was directed to the scene by radio from a member of the squad at the beach. 

Meanwhile, in difficult conditions, local fishermen, Mr. Bill Ewen and Mr. Roger Tugwell, rescued Mr. Warren and his son, who had been clinging to their boat before the arrival of the rescue craft. 

Mr. Warren suffered shock and exhaustion. Although badly damaged the cabin boat was towed to shallow water where it was righted and refloated by the rescue boat crew. 

Communications were controlled from the new operations room at the Victor Harbour Yacht Club and a recently installed telephone proved of great benefit in obtaining additional assistance. Another rescue boat which was already at sea was notified by radio of the situation. 

This was the ninth occasion this year that the rescue squadron had been summoned to help persons in trouble at sea. With the summer season approaching and the arrival of many small craft at Victor Harbour and Encounter Bay, the rescue squadron can expect to be called out to save inexperienced boatmen who enter waters which they do not know. 

A word of advice: When putting to sea, or the river, always wear a life jacket.

THANKS

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Fri 26 Nov 1971 

Mr. F. Warren and son, Richard, of Yilki, wish to sincerely thank all those who helped in the rescue of them and their boat on Monday.

Special thanks to V.H. Rescue Squad, Messrs. George and Bill Ewen, Mr. Roger Tugwell, and Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Lewis.

Club Trophies

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Wed 22 Dec 1982 

Goolwa Pistol club's 1982 trophies: 

• President's trophy: Ruth Tugwell 

• F.P club championship: Roger Tugwell. 

• Beth Carle Memorial trophy: Ruth Tugwell. 

• Blanche Tugwell trophy: Brenton Dinnison. 

• Roger Tugwell Perpetual Trophy C.F : Roger Tugwell. 

• Perpetual tropy R.F : Roger Tugwell. 

• Perpetual trophy air pistol: Roger Tugwell. 

• Perpetual trophy ladies: Ruth Tugwell

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

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•  Wed 11 Feb 1981 

•  Page 23 

•  Goolwa shoot

Fish feast for seals is costly

•  Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Wed 14 Mar 1984 

Sea lions offshore at Victor Harbor are daily gouging holes in the nets of local professional fishermen and gorging on their catches. And the men have no deterrent for this destruction.

Fisherman Roger Tugwell calculates the seals cost him $3,000 for damaged nets and $7,000 for lost fish each year. There are at least three seals presently feasting on the fishermen's catches, and up to nine have been spotted. They bite off the heads or tails, making the fish palatable only to seagulls, and other fish escape through the tears in the nets.

"Just one seal can eat one cwt of fish a day," commented Mr Tugwell. The problem has been around for 50-60 years but is getting worse each year as the seal numbers grow, he contended. "We are lucky if we manage to save half our catch. "Most mornings, sections of the nets are torn to pieces." The fishermen have been refused a permit allowing them to destroy two seals a year. Another fisherman in the area, Mr Murray Shannon, was told this was because the Australian sea lion was not exceptionally numerous. There are about 5,000 individuals living in the world - most of these off the coast of South Australia. The relevant Department advised him that Kangaroo Island fishermen protect their

nets by attending to them and lifting the nets if a seal goes by. He was told: "This appears to prevent most of the damage although some seals are persistent." Local fishermen state this is impossible. Their nets are left in the sea for 24 hours at a time, and they cannot guard them day and night.

Local fisherman Murray Shannon with sweep partially eaten by seals.

Shoot at Currency Creek

• Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Wed 14 Nov 1984 

Pistol shooter Roger Tugwell, of Goolwa Pistol Club, looks over his 'disapointlng' shoot of 135 out of a possible 150 points during Sunday's round of shooting at the Currency Creek range.

•  Victor Harbour Times (SA : 1932 - 1986) 

•  Fri 18 Jul 1986