RYE DISASTER
REVELATION AT INQUIRY TELEPHONE DELAY COST SEVENTEEN LIVES (United Press Association.— By ElcctriJ Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 20, 9.25 p.m.) London, December 20. That five minutes’ delay at a telephone cost 17 lives in the Rye lifeboat disaster was revealed at the Board of Trade inquiry. The lifeboat was launched at 6.45, and a message received at 6.50 that the Alice’s crew had been rescued. This originated from the North Foreland wireless station at 6.12, but it took thirty-eight minutes to reach Rye through various coastguard stations, because the call was not treated as a life-saving message.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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101RYE DISASTER Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 75, 21 December 1928, Page 7
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