Gale in Britain

Inangahua Times, 11 December 1929, Page 3

Gale in Britain

(Ana. Pr*a* Am. and (hca Oabla.) (Autraßaa and MM. OWMs «ar*tMju DAMAGE TO SHIPPING. I I VOLUMNXA ABANDONED * A - LL °N BOARD TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER STEADIER RUGBY, December 9. [ Further reports of dnimage to shipping been received at Lloyds, I Tl,< ' British st ph mer, Manchester j Regiment wirelessed that it had taken on board 45 of the Glasgow steamer Yolanda, abandoned n*t noon todav. severul hundred in hies off ,the west coast, of Ireland. One lifeboat was lost in the opera &ions a DAMAGED STEERING GEAR Several vessels wore disabled owing to damage to steering gear and summoned assistance from tugs. During the dtav, vessels in distress in the English Channel have also received assistance from great ocean liners. The British steamer, Britannic, was towed by a trawler which stood by for some hours before the cable could be passed owing to the gale. SEVERAL FATAL ACCIDENTS Several fatal accidents, duo to the wind, occurred on land and three people suffered serious injury through the collapse of a Church in Glasgow during a severe thunderstorm. fsußvrvaßis piciked tip PARTS, December 9. A trawler picked up six survivors of the Italian steamer, Chieri, which sank off TTishant. Forty of the crew wore drowned.

STIRRING STORY A DOUBLE RESCUE PARIS, December 9. The stirring story of a double rescue w«F told by officers of the French salvage tug Iroise, which put to sea on December s*th, in search of the steamer vHclcn which was reported to -be in distress south of Ushant. The Helen's hold was found full of wiater and the engines were out of coannnissfion. The Iroise passed a cable aboard but j it broke in the darkness, while making l for Brest. The Helen drifted rapidly toward- * Armen rocks and began to sink. | The Iroiise picked up the crow, wi-‘h , the exception of one officer. I flhc had scarcely finished the rescue . when ,she received «n 8.0.5. from the Danish freighter, Galdana, which she succeeded in bringing safely to i The Iroise has now set out again in reply to signals from tihe British steam- I ers Alba and Tynebridge and the Ital- I ian vessel Sin at ore Dali, CHANNEL FLIGHT FOUR, HOURS’ BATTLE PARIS, December 9. Tho newspaper aeroplane reached 1c Bourget despite the weather in the Channel with which the pilot 'had a four hours baittle. GALE STILL RAGING. COUNTRYSIDE FLOODED HEAVY (SHIPPING LOSSES LONDON, December 9. Tho gale was still raging at dawn of sixth, day with unprecedented severity. Whole tracts of countryside are flooded and! the Thames is becoming a scries of great lakes, in some places two miles wide. Villages which f ringe Somerset mooTlands have been; flooded and four hundred; homeless have taken mefuge in neighbouring places. A hundred thousand tons of shipping has been lost, stranded l or rendered in distress. t Insurance losses are heavy, 'but arc overspread. i • " Volumnia’a Crew Rescued r ' Reed 9 sam New York, Dec 10 i A report from Boston states that ’ the rescue in mid-Atlantic of the . crew of about forty following the I abandonment of the storm battered I British steamer Volumnia is revealed, confirmed by reports received bv the 1 local steamship agents. From I Glasgow despatches received stated that all hands were safe. I Seventy-Five Drowned ! Two Washed off Dieppe Landing Reed 10 5 a m Paris, Dec io 1 Seventy-one seamen are feared to \ have been drowned in the present , storm in the French Channel and on , the Atlantic coast. Two of the • crowd on the Dieppe Landing Stage, i watching the arrival of a steamer, were washed off by a huge wave and disappeared.