QUEEN MARY HOVE TO

Dominion, Volume 39, Issue 28, 27 October 1945, Page 7

QUEEN MARY HOVE TO

Terrific Storm In English Channel (Received October 26, 10 p.m.) LONDON, October 2G. A drifting sea mine washed up by the gale exploded on the beach at Folkestone about midnight, violently shaking the whole town ami smashing windows >n the .seafront for a distance of 1050 yards. One correspondent this morning describes the Channel as a boiling cauldron of foam whipped up by the SO-niile-nn-hour wind. Between 30 and 10 ships are sheltering in the Downs Roadstead, between Deal and the Goodwins, including an American hospital ship which draggl'd both anchors ami drifted a mile and a half before they gripped. The Queen Mary, with 1000 passengers on board, is still riding out the'storm oil the Isle of Wight, with a special naval craft standing by on the look-out for loose mines. The storm, which had cased in the south of England yesterday morning, returned with renewed strength in the afternoon, and affected all Central Europe. The Georgie manage.! to reach . her berth at Liverpool after a delay 'of two davs. The Ameriean Liberty ship Charles Glover struck a reef 21) miles from the eoast <>f Brittany, and a French tug reported that the ship was tillbig with waler ami the engines idle. the crew were safe. The vessel was carrying coal Io France.