HAVOC TO SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 80, 28 December 1929, Page 9

HAVOC TO SHIPPING

GALES ON COASTS OF BRITAIN AND EUROPE 32 DEATHS RECORDED MANY GALLANT RESCUES (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Rec. December 27, 7 p.m.) London, December 26. Fierce gales on the British coast and in South and Eastern Europe wrought havoc to shipping. Thus far thirtytwo deaths have been recorded, the majority of them in the Danish steamer Asland. There have been many gallant rescues from distressed vessels at various points on the British coast. WRECK ON SPANISH COAST CREW BATTERED TO DEATH Madrid, December 26. Rockets from the cod-laden steamer Asland from Ireland apprised the gendarmes at Bayona that the vessel was drifting helplessly shoreward. Three boats put out, but the rocks prevented their approach. The cries of the seamen from the darkness indicated that the vessel had struck. Subsequently the bodies of the crew, who had been battered to death on the rocks, were washed ashore. The crew numbered twenty-five. STEAMER ON PILLING SANDS CREW RESCUED BY LIFEBOAT London, December 26. The Fleetwood lifeboat on Christmas Day rescued six men, the skeleton crew of the French steamer Tchad from Bordeaux to Morecambe. The Tchad dragged her anchor and drifted on Pilling Sands. Rockets proved unavailing, and the crew soaked mattresses in paraffin and burned them, attracting the lifeboat crew, who launched their craft in the teeth of the gale, battled for hours, threw a rope, and rescued the crew.