PORTUGAL AND SPAIN
16 SHIPS SUNKEN THE TAGUS
(Received February 18, 9 a.m.)
* LISBON, February IT.
Few streets escaped damage from the hurricane in which the British flyingboat Clyde was lost. Tall chimneys collapsed like packs of cards. Many houses have been evacuated.
A British four-engined naval flyingboat made a forced landing in the Bay of • Setubal. The pilot grounded the machine on a river bank and expects to go to Gibraltar within the legal limit of international law.
Sixteen ships were sunk in the Tagus by the gale, which lashed, up waves 20 feet high. The Tagus overflowed at Alhandra, where over 100 people were drowned. Twenty-seven women and children were sheltering on the roof of a nearby farmhouse when the building collapsed. Twelve bodies have been recovered so far.
The gale is regarded as the worst in Europe in 87 years.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 41, 18 February 1941, Page 7
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