Friday’s Devastating Gale

Evening Star, Issue 20029, 21 November 1928, Page 8

Friday’s Devastating Gale

Shipping Disasters on English Coast Heavy Loss of Life The Causes of Cancer Present Position Explained

(British Official Wireless.) Press Association--By Telegraph Copyright TiUGBY, November IT Many disasters to small vessels around tlio English coast occurred during Friday’s great gale. The full extent of the loss of life is not yet known. .It was learned yesterday that five of tho crew of a small schooner wore lost when the vessel, in endeavouring to return to port on the north coast of Anglesey, was dashed on the rocks and wrecked. Tho only survivor was a boy, who was found yesterday in a weak state and taken aboard the pilot boat, where bo collapsed. .Mis condition is grave. No information regarding the'crew of tho steamer Eltham, which was found broken in two ou the Cornish coast, has been received. Members of the crows of Jive vessels were washed overboard and drowned in tho heavy seas, and the vessels limped back to port in a damaged condition.

Tho Gorman tug Suffolk, in response to wireless culls, picked up the steamer Lenarat off Lands End, and towed the damaged vessel into .Falmoutlpafter a perilous journey, during which the hawser snapped. The Italian steamer Eolgere also arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept almost clean, and three lifeboats smashed. The Jugo-Slav steamer Dohodak, which was hound for Trieste, put into Dover to land the body of a boatman who was killed during Dm heavy seas.

nothing to communicate as late as FoG on Monday.