VESSELS ASHORE
FOG EOUND BEITAIN
LIFEBOATS STAND BY
(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 3, 11 a.m.)
: RUGBY, May 2. v Although most of Britain 'is experiencing a spell of sunshine after, the ** welcome rains which havo diminished t< tho water shortage anxieties, fog is being experienced round the coasts, i The, Dutch motor vessel Westlaan went f, ashore in a dense fog at Portland Bill 0: during the1 night and members of the a crew, with the wife and two children d of tho captain, were brought ashore by j] breeches buoy. The Westlaan was re- s , floated this morning. jj The three:masted schooner /Mary S] Miller is also ashore in thick fog off tl Dungeness Point. She is in no danger, t, unless the wind freshens from the south, t: and it is hoped to refloat her during s ] the day.. Meanwhile two lifeboats and s the Dungeness life-saving crew are ?,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 103, 3 May 1934, Page 11
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