THE QUEEN MARY IN GALE
LONDON, October 26. The liner Queen Mary, after a stormy crossing from New York, docked at Southampton three and a half hours late. Eight passengers and four members of the crew were hurt. Mrs Fieldsend, an elderly third-class passenger, was removed from the ship’s hospital to a hospital at Southampton. Captain Peel said that the liner, as could be expected in a heavy sea with a 55-miles an hour wind on the starboard quarter, rolled considerably. She was slowed down to about 14 knots while the doctor was treating Mrs Fieldsend. The passage occupied 4 days 16 hours 24 minutes’ at an average speed of 27.4 knots. The liner American Shipper, outward bound from Liverpool, with 22 passengers, lost her rudder and is helpless off Wicklow. Tugs have gone to her assistance. A severe gale in the English Channel to-day forced many vessels to seek shelter. The gale caused the first cancellation of the new train ferry service between Dover and Dunkirk. The ordinary cross-Channel mail steamers had very bad passages.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LVI, Issue 85, 29 October 1936, Page 3
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