FOG ON ENGLISH COAST

Evening Star, Issue 21655, 26 February 1934, Page 9

FOG ON ENGLISH COAST

SHIPPING DELAYED (British Official Wireless.) • Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright, RUGBY, February'23. Shipping was disorganised owing to fog on Southampton Water and the Thames Estuary. The Danish steamer Alaja, of 2,203 tons, and the London steamer Camberwell, of 1,577' tons, were in collision off the Essex coast and the Clacton lifeboat put out to the scene of the accident but returned after lifeboat men had boarded both vessels and satisfied themselves that though both were damaged no lives were in danger. The fog delayed the departure from Southampton by twelve hours of the liner President Roosevelt, bound to New York with passengers and nearly £2,000,000 worth of gold. The Ham-burg-Amerika liner New York was delayed on her journey from Hamburg to Southampton and it was decided that she should take on passengers and' nearly £2,000,000 worth of gold for New York in Cowes roads. MANY SHIPS HELD UP (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY,. February. 25. : (Received February'26, at noon.) Fog over the coast of southern England caused considerable delay to shipping night. Many vessels found it necessary to drop anchor a few miles from port. The 1 cruiser Ouracoa, in which. Lord Allenby and'Sir Roger Keyes returned yesterday after attending King Albert’s funeral, was delayed, and finally anchored off Dover. ; Lord - Allenby, Sir Roger Keyes, a detachment of the Royal Marines, and representatives- of the Air Force were brought, ashore by a tug. 1 The Southern Railway Company’s steamer from Jersey, which was due at Southampton yesterday, afternoon, did not reach Port till this morning.. In London the fog was less dense tlran ‘on the coast, but in the early hours road traffic had to. proceed slowly and with great caution.