GALE IN BRITAIN
SHIPPING DISLOCATED VESSEL IN DISTRESS FUTILE SEARCH MADE (British Official Wireless.) Eec. noon. RUGBY, Aug. 2. The Plymouth lifeboat spent the night in an unsuccessful search for an unknown vessel which sent up distress signals off Bigbury Bay. A CO-mile-an-hour gale was blowing, and blinding rain made visibility very poor.
A heavy gale to-day, caused the dislocation of holiday traffic in the Bristol Channel. One holiday boat, laden with passengers from Cardiff to Ilfracombe, was unable to proceed, and experienced difficulty from heavy seas before successfully making a return to Cardiff.
Two or three small vessels were blown ashore in the Bristol Channel.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 7
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106GALE IN BRITAIN Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18466, 3 August 1934, Page 7
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