70-Miles An Hour Gale Lashes Britain
LONDON, December 19. A gale of 70 miles an hour, which lashed the coast of Britain yesterday, is continuing unabated. A constant watch is being kept on two breaches in the seawall —at Sandgate, in Kent, and Portland, in Dorset. Ships are being battered off every coast. One sent an SOS. Gigantic breakers are storming against the sea fronts, mines have been washed ashore and some areas flooded. A man and a woman were blown over the side of a dock at Aberdeen and drowned. Sailings of troopships between Folkestone and Calais have been delayed. The Air Ministry late yesterday forecast a continuance of stormy weather.
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Northern Advocate, 21 December 1945, Page 10
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