The loss of three young members of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the yacht Evaine, near Tiritiri, on April 17, was recalled at an inquest yesterday into the death of Jack William  Dallow, signalman, aged 20, of Oriental Bay, Wellington, whose body was found on the beach at Wliangaparaoa Peninsula on May 4. The, bodies of his companions, William Albert Ryan and Desmond Clyde Waite, have not been recovered. Evidence was given that permission was given to the men to go sailing in Ryan's boat, which was found capsized five hours later about three miles from Tiritiri. All sails were set, and the leader sail appeared to have fouled the masthead. Robert Wilson Leitch, yeoman of signals, who had previously sailed with Ryan, said: "It appears to me that while hoisting the spinnaker Ryan handed over the tiller to either Dallow or Waite, who through inexperience might easily have allowed the yacht to gybe." The coroner, Mr. F. K. Hunt, returned a verdict of accidental drowning in the case of Dallow, and intimated that later proceedings would probably be taken in respect of the other victims.

[New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23704, 10 July 1940, Page 12]