SEA DISASTERS
THE GALE IN ENGLAND MANY LIVES LOST. SEVERAL VESSELS BADLY DAMAGED. [British Official Wireless.) Rugby, Nov. 19. Ruby, Nov. 19. Many disasters to small vessels around the English coast occurred during Friday’s great gale and the full extent of the loss of life is not yet known. It was learned yesterday that live of the crew of a small schooner were lost when the vessel, in endeavouring to return to port on the north coast of Angelsey, was dashed on the rocks and wrecked. The only survivor was a boy, tvho was found yesterday in a weak state and taken aboard a pilot boat and collapsed. His condition is grave. No information regarding the crew of the steamer Eltham, which wail found broken in two on the Cornish coast, has been received. Members of the crews of five vessels were washed overboard and drowned in the hcay seas, and several vessels limped back to port in a damaged con dition.
The German tug Socfolk, in response to wireless calls, picked up the steamer Lenarai off Lands End and towed the damaged vessel into Falmouth after a perilous journey, during which a hawser snapped. To Italian steamer Folgere also arrived at Falmouth' with her decks swept almost clean and three lifeboats smashed.
The Jugo-Slav steamer Dohodak, bound for Treiste. put into Dover to land the body of a boatswain killed during the heavy seas.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HBTRIB19281121.2.51
Bibliographic details
Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 288, 21 November 1928, Page 6
Word Count
235SEA DISASTERS Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 288, 21 November 1928, Page 6
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Hawke's Bay Tribune. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in