MANY SHIPS IN PERIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 9

MANY SHIPS IN PERIL.

CONTINUANCE OP GALES.

GALLANT LIFEBOATMEN.

•JffiSCUES IN ROUGH SEAS.

STEAMERS TAKE SHELTER.

FRENCH POUTS CROWDED.

Hv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. Austrnlirin Press Association—United Servico (Received November 26, 8.53 p.m.) British Wireless. LONDON. Nov. 25. High winds prevailed in England again yesterday following upon tho galo of tho previous day. Heavy rainstorms were ac companied by wind, which at times reached a velocity of 88 miles an hour nt Liverpool and many other places. Eight people were killed on land by falling frees or chimneys.

Most of the Channel services were cancelled on Friday, but they wero running as usual on Saturday, except that the Boulogne traffic was diverted to Calais. Tluco seaplanes moored at Portsmouth were sunk by heavy Seas. Two are in comparatively sln.llow water, but tho third was smashed ag'ninst a breakwater. .\ Ramsgato motor-lifoboat made two journeys and rescued somo men from Deal herring boats which wero in trouble. At Bombridge, Isle of Wight, a lifeboat crew went to the aid of a Russian oil tanker, tho Ncfte Svndicat, which had sent out. distress calls. When off St. Catherine's Point her steering ccar was broken and her captain asked for two tugs. Tho departure from Southampton of the iteamers Edinburgh Castlo for the Capo niul the Tuscania for New York was dolayed for some hours. Tho Ma jestic, from New York, was lato in reaching Liverpool. Among tho passengers on the Edinburgh Castle wero tho Earl of Athloue, Gover-nor-General of South Africa, and his wife, Princess Alice, anrl daughter, Lady May Cambridge. Tho earl is returning to South Africa to resume his duties. Fronch Crew Saved by Llfeboatmen. Tho galo is si ill raging to-day. Wiro-]>-;s messages report violent seas to tho ■\ --st and in the North Sea and EnglL.li Channel. Lifeboat crews have saved 23 lives. One lilo was lost when a new lifeboat at Brighton set out to assist a French *tearner, tho Ernilo Delmas, 2000 tons After fighting through tremendous seas for 15 miles the lifeboat reached tho ■vessel, the anchor cables of which had broken. The crew of (he steamer jumped into tho sea and worn pulled safely on board the lifeboat, but their rescue took morn than an hour. Then a huge wave washed two members of the crew and tho chief engineer of tho Frevrh steamer overboard. The latter stepped through a lifebuoy and was drowned. Captain Coussin, of the Ernile Delmas, paid a warm tribnto to the bravery of tho lifeboatmen. Eighty German Cadets Rescued. The arrivals and the departures of liners have been delayed. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, and his party arrived at Liverpool from Canada today by the Ftegina, which was lato in docking through having to wait her turn. On the land extensive minor damage was done by tho gale. The weather forecasts anticipate a continuance of rough conditions. The cross-Channel and Irish Sea services had to be suspended again to-day. A German cadet training barque, tho Pornmern, when off Guernsey sent out a distress signal, and tho steamers Lincastria and Osterlry went to her rescue. They saved £>o cadels with the. aid of the Limerick and tho Chepstow Castle, which stood by. The Lancaitria launccd a lifeboat, but this was smashed and tho crew had a very narrow escape. The rescue fit" all on board the Pomniern was finally effected by pouring oil oil tho mountainous seas. 'I lie wind sometimes reached a velocity of bo to 90 miles an hour. Unprecedented Shipping Congestion, There are mountainous seas in tho Bay tof Biscay, whero a largo French liner is jn distress.

Dunkirk, Boulogne, Cherbourg nnd ether Continental ports are crowded with Vessels which have run in for shelter.

The conditions in tho Channel and in tho North Sea aro vividly indicated in a mes mho from Cherbourg to tho effect that Jtlie air is full of S.O.S. calls.

Fifty vessels of all nationalities nn» sheltering in the roadsteads off Deal alone. II hero has not been such congestion for many yeara. The captains of some vessel* liave wirelessed saying they are short of provisions.

Tlio air services from tho Continent have been cancelled, but tlio midday scr tiwo from London to Paris was flown iu duplicate, owing to the number of pasneiigers who were anxious to avoid a rough sea crossing. The planes accomplished 1110 journey in 95 minutes. The destruction wrought by the storin st the Cramlingtori aerodrome involved tho loss of tlie Newcastle Aero Club's entiro fleet of Moth planes. 'lhe roof of the hangar fell in and the planes were flushed against the sides of the hangar.