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Evening Star, Issue 16629, 11 January 1918, Page 4

Unusual scenes were witnessed on the South Coast, says a writer in the Yorkshire * Evening Post,’ when fishermen who launched their nets to trawl the foreshore caught, instead of fish, barrels of wine, which the heavy swell of the previous day had stirred up from the sea bed and swept shorewards. These hogsheads, over 20 in number, were found floating a stone’s-throw from the shore, and they evidently formed part of the cargo, of some ship sunk. Each barrel contained about 60 gallons of choice red and white wines in good condition, and untouched by salt water. In all there are over 1,000 gallons, and as many as three barrels were taken at one time in one net.