SHIPPING HAVOC.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 276, 21 November 1928, Page 7

SHIPPING HAVOC.

WRECK-STREWN COAST

Heavy Toll Of Week-End Storm In Britain.

DEATH BOLL UNKNOWN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 20. Disaster overtook many small vessels around the English coast in the great gale on Friday. The number of lives lost is not yet known.

Five members of the crew of a small schooner were lost when their vessel was dashed on to the rocks and wrecked. She was returning to a port on the north coast of Anglesey at the time. The only survivor was a boy, who was found in a weak state and taken on board a pilot boat. He subsequently collapsed and his condition is now grave. No information has been received about the crew of the steamer Elthara, which was found broken in two en the Cornish coast.

Some members of the crews of five vessels were washed overboard and drowned in heavy seas and the vessels limped back to port in a damaged condition. A German tug, the Seefalke, in response to wireless calls picked up the steamer Lenarai off Land's End and towed the damaged vessel into Falmouth after a perilous journey, during which one towing hawser snapped. An Italian steamer, the Folgoro, 3950 tons, also arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept almost clean, and three lifeboats smashed. A Yugoslav steamer, the Dohodak, bound for Trieste, put into Dover to land the body of a boatman who had been killed.