GALE ON ENGLISH COAST

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 November 1928, Page 5

GALE ON ENGLISH COAST

MANY WRECKS

(British Official Wireless)

RUGBY, 19th November. 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 Angelsey, was dashed on the rocks and wrecked. Th'ef only survivor was a boy, who was found yesterday in a weak state and taken" aboard a pilot boat, when he collapsed. His condition is grave. "',;; No information regarding the crew of the steamer Eltham, which was found broken in two on the Cornish coast, has been received. Members of the crews of five vessels were washed overboard and drowned in heavy seas, and the vessels limped back to port in/a' damaged condition. The German tug Seefolk, in response to wireless calls, picked up the steamer Lenarai off Land's End, and towed the damaged vessel into Falmouth after a perilous journey,-dur-ing which the hawser snapped. The Italian steamer Folgere also arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept clean and three lifeboats smashed. The-Jugo-slav steamer Dohodak, bound for Trieste, put into Dover to land - the body of a boatsman killed during heavy seas.