GUSTS OF 94 MILES AN HOUR
COLLAPSE OF A HOUSE TWO CHILDREN KILLED (British Official Wireless! i Received 24th January, 10. C a.m.) RUGBY, 23rd January. The steamer to whose assistance the Saint Ives ’ifeboat was proceeding when disaster befell her was able tc get away under her own steam. Severe gales which swept south-west England during the night continued this morning. A gust of 94 miles an hour was recorded in the Scilly Islands. Gale conditions prevailed in the English Channel.
On land the gale caused damage in Devonshire and Cornwall. A house collapsed at Devonport in the early morning, causing the death of two children NO TRACE OF LIFEBOAT CREW (Received 24th January. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON. 23rd January. The Penlee lifeboat returned without finding any trace of the St. Ives’ crew. The Lifeboat Association announces that the families of those drowned will be pensioned. The crew was commanded by the 63-year-old coxswain Thomas Cocking, whose crew in fifteen months saved 66 lives. Those drowned include Cooking’s son. son-in-law. and also two brothers named Barber.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 January 1939, Page 5
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