LIFEBOAT DISASTER
delayed telephone call Press Association—By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, December 20. That five minutes’ delay in tho telephone cost seventeen lives in the Rye lifeboat disaster was revealed at tho Board of Trade inquiry. The lifeboat was launched at 6.45, and a message was received at 6.50 that the crew ol tho Alice had been rescued. This originated from the North Foreland wireless station at 6.12, but took thirtyeight minutes to reach Rye through various coastguard stations because the call was not treated as a lile-saving message.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20055, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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