FIERCE GALES IN ATLANTIC
High Seas Batter Queen Mary SLIGHT INJURIES TO PASSENGERS
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 4. The liner Queen Mary docked 25 hours late at Southampton to-day after her worst Atlantic crossing. On February 1 tremendous waves caused the liner to heel to about 30 degrees and for the first time in her history the words "dangerous seas” were written in her log. Passengers were thrown about and much of the liner’s crockery was broken. Three passengers had bones broken arid about 50 suffered slight inJU The gales, which have been battering the English coast for the last 48 hours brought down the massive outer walls and part of the bastions of the sixteenth century Sandgate Castle. 1 Roads in nine counties have been ! fl °Four aeroplanes were destroyed, and I others were seriously damaged, by a gale at Croydon airport
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26030, 6 February 1950, Page 7
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