FISHING FLEET CAUGHT
DISASTROUS LOSS OF NETS
TWO DRIFTEKS SUNK
British O(Belli Wireless.
(Received 14th November, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 13th November.
Mr. W. Adamson, Secretary for Scotland, said, in the House of Commons, that he was grieved to announce a disaster off the East Coast of England on Monday afternoon to the Scottish fishing fleet. The fleet left early in the morning before the gale warning reached them, and proceeded to the fishing grounds, where they should have arrived about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. " A gale with great fury swept the fleet, with the result that two drifters were sunk and three lives lost. Vessels from Lowestoft lost 11,000 nets, and 400 vessels from Yarmouth lost 20,000 nets. The present value of the nets was about £90,000, and the cost of replacement would be about £150,000.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 118, 14 November 1929, Page 9
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