MANY DISASTERS
THE GALE IN BRITAIN SEVERAL SHIPS DAMAGED (British Official Wireless.) Roe. 10 a.m. RUGBY. Nov. 19. Many disasters to small vessels around tho English coast occurred during triday’s great gale, and the full extent, of the, loss of life is not yet known.
It was learned yesterday that live-of the crew of a small schooner were lost when the vessel, in endeavoring to return to port on the north coast of Anglesea, was dashed on the rocks and wrecked. The only survivor was a hoy, who was found yesterday in a weak state and taken aboard a pilot boat and collapsed. ' His condition is grave. No information regarding the crew of the steamer Kit-ham, which was found broken in two on the Cornish coast, has been received. Members of the crews of five vessels were, washed overboard 1 and drowned in heavy seas, and vessels limped back to port in a damaged condition.
The German tug, Seefolk, in response to wireless calls, picked tip; the steamer Lenarari off Land’s End, and towed tho damaged vessel into Falmouth after a perilous journey, during which a hawser snapped. The Italian steamer Folycre also arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept almost clean, and three lifeboats .smashed. The Jugo-Slav steamer Dohodak, hound for Trieste, put into Dover to land the. body of a boatman who had been killed during heavy seas.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16807, 21 November 1928, Page 7
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