FOG IN CHANNEL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21998, 6 July 1933, Page 14

FOG IN CHANNEL

CAMBRIDGE IN COLLISION. (From Our Own i'okrksi-omik.’ii.) LONDON, May 20. During; a dense fog in the Channel at 4 a.m. on May 20 the F.S.N. Company s »teamer Cambridge, en route for New Zealand, was in collision with a sailing barge of 160 tons, called May. The collision occurred off Portland Bill, where the May sank. For nearly two hours Captain R. Williams, master of the Cambridge, searched for the occupants of the barge. One youth, named Harry Hale, aged 10, was picked up unconscious and taken aboard, but the captain and mate could not be found. Hale belongs to Salcombe Regis, W a nt age. Captain Williams reported the occurrence to Land's End wireless station, and made for Torbay. Hale was landed there, and was taken to hispital at Grixh-im. The Cambridge then continued on her voyage. ' , The May, owned by Mr T. Cox. of Portland, loft Guernsey for Portland on the previous day with a-cargo of granite clippings. Mr Cox told a press representative G. Chapman (captain of the May) was a native of Grays, Essex, but bad been living at Alderney for some years, where he leaves a wife and two children. All that is known of the mate, Fred Hoxby. is that he was engaged from the training ghip Exmouth, at Grays;