GREAT STORM IN BRITAIN
LONDON, December 19. A 70-mile-an-hour gale lashed the British coast yesterday and is continuing unabated. A constant watch is being kept at two breaches in seawalls —at Sandgate (Kent) and Portland (Dorset). The great storm battered ships off every coast. One sent an SOS. Gigantic breakers stormed against sea fronts, mines were washed ashore, and some areas were flooded. A man and a woman were blown off a dock at Aberdeen and drowned. Troopship sailings between Folkestone and Calais are delayed. Late yesterday the Air Ministry forecast a continuance of stormy weather.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 6
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