PERIL IN FOG
Ordeal For Passengers ' Several hundred holiday-makers who recently left Cardiff on the steamship Cambria, had a thrilling experience when they reached Weston-on-super-Mare. Tlie Cambria was unable to make the pier owing to fog, and so anchored in the bay. A local boatman named Binford, put out iuto the gloom, and, having located the vessel with difficulty, took off 12 of ■the Weston-bound passengers in his motor-boat. On the way back, however the motor-boat grounded on rocks while making her way to the pier jetty A former lifeboat, now used for pleasure purposes, went in search of the motor-boat, but could not find her. Finally, a punt discovered her and took her 12 passengers to the shore. The motor-boat remained stranded till the evening tide. The Cambria herself nearly ran on to rocks at the end of Blrnbeck Pier. She was warned just in time by members of the pier staff who shouted through megaphones.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 46, 18 November 1936, Page 11
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157PERIL IN FOG Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 46, 18 November 1936, Page 11
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