GALE IN ENGLAND.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 304, 21 November 1928, Page 7

GALE IN ENGLAND.

SMALL SHIPPING CRAFT DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY, 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 five of the crew of a small schooner were lost when the vessel, in endeavouring to return to port on the North Coast of Anglesey, was dashed on the rocks and wrecked. The only survivor was a boy who was found yesterday in a weak state and taken aboard a pilot boat, where he collapsed. Ilis condition is grave. No information regarding tho crew of the steamer Eltham, which was found broken in two on the Cornish coast, has been received. Members of tho crews of five vessels were washed overboard and drowned in tho heavy seas and the vessel limped back to port in a damaged condition. The German tug Seefalk, in response to wireless calls, picked up the steamer Lenarai off Land’s End and, after a perilous journey, towed the damaged vessel into Falmouth. The Italian steamer Folgere also arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept almost clean and three lifeboats smashed. The Yugo-slav steamer Dohodak, bound for Trieste, put into Dover to land the body of a boatman who was killed during the heavy seas.