A CHRISTMASTIDE GALE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 15

A CHRISTMASTIDE GALE.

..WBECKS AND LOSS OP LIFE." . A fierce. Christmastide „ gale strewed the British coast with wrecks, and took a heavy toll in human lives. The most tragic case of all -was ■■ that of the Grtmsby trawler-Cameo,, which.ran on the rocks south of the llghthouse-at : Battray Head, which is ou the Aberdeenshlre coast, about ten'niiles north of Peterhead. ■ • ' ", She struck the ■ outer reef tfcfore * the dawn, 'aud r hea-vy seas broke OTer her with great force and Volume. The crew of ten, unable to reach*£he shore or to cave themselves, lashed ■ themselves to the. rigging. They were seen toy taie lighthouse officials, and,the lifeboat crew and the'llfβ-earing. brigade turned out. tut, owing to the flerceness of the sale, they were unafcle to save them. It was impossible for thellfebbat .to leach the trawler, and equally Impossibleto communicate with the crew by means of the rocket-apparatus. ■ ■ Three of the crew were ■washed overboard and thalr lifeless bodies -were-found .on the beach. • One of the' victims lhad' the" letter F tattooed on. the left arm, while on..the right arm of another Tvere* the names "Harold ¥ Wrlght" ..and '."'Xteorge t 'Webster.". Jα . the afternoon '' the funnel of the vessel /was "washed away, and as when darkness came ythe" great waves were .breaking up the ship there can, unfortunately, tie no donbt that >tae .whole o" the crew .were drowned. > The shipwrecked crew of the Berwick trawler Success Save ibeen landed et Aberdeen -by the trajwler Monarch,' The enecess Tvrecked off Donmotith. ■ A Lloyd's message from Eamsgst* etstes that tie steamer EniernM-n. of London, to Caen, stranded on the Goodwin"-Sands and becatae a total wreck. The crew were eeved. " The ißritish steamer ■ Clan Davldfeon, bound from London to Clyde, has ,sent a ■wireless message, -whlcli has reached (Fort Patrick, that she Is ashore on Gune jelanil, about BaHy Qulnton, on ■ the ' fonr& rock. (Guns Island is two and β-natf miles southwest of the entrance to' Lough Strangford, County Down, and is cennected wiitt the mainland by a. causeway.) The steamer reported to have etrak et the entrance to the river at Dundee Is supposed to be the Moor, of Glasgow,,from' Grangemourh to Dundee.

Two bodies washed ashore on the Forfarshire coast at Camonstie are supposed to be those of two members of the. crew ot the French barque Hoche, which fonhderod between Arbroath and Camonstie v durlng a ieavy etorm on October. 28. ~. ; ,