FISHING DISASTER
GALE SWEEPS FLEET SEVERAL BOATS FOUNDER (Blitish Official Wireless.) h’ec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. .13. In tho House of Commons Mr \V. Adamson, Secretary for Scotland, announced a. disaster off the East England coast on Monday afternoon to a Scottish fishing fleet. The licet left early in the morning before the gale warning reached them, and proceeded to the fishing grounds, where it should have arrived at about 1 o’clock. In the afternon a gale of great fury swept the fleet, with the result that two vessels drifted and were sunk and three lives lost. In addition some foundered. Vessels from Lowestoft lost 11,000 nets and 400 vessels from Yarmouth lost 20,000 nets. Tim present value of the nets was about £90,000, and the cost of replacement would be about £150.000.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17108, 14 November 1929, Page 8
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