VIOLENT ATLANTIC GALES
STEAMERS DRIVEN TO
SHELTER
DESPERATE PLIGHT OF PASSENGER LINER
LONDON, January 28
Gales are raging in the Atlantic find, on British coasts and sno\tf blizzards are being experienced in the south-west of England and elsewhere. One hundred passengers are in peril on the Brazilian liner Santos, which sent out an SOS, “Drifting helplessly. Position desperate. Engines damaged. All lifeboats swept fiway. Drifting toward Berlengas Island.” . Because of the violent storm it is impossible to send out a rescue tug. -The steamer Jonge Jacobus from Rotterdam is reported to have sunk finer grounding on the Berlengas islands. The crew were saved, with me exception of one man' who was hashed overboard. . Forty-seven steamers are sheltering from the gale at Gibraltar. The ' Destroyer Flotilla is also there. Many ships have suffered minor Damage. The blizzards and snow aje holding up the war activities at
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22004, 30 January 1937, Page 13
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