HEAVY SEAS

Southland Times, Issue 20648, 21 November 1928, Page 5

HEAVY SEAS

ENGLISH COAST MANY SMALL VESSELS WRECKED NUMBER DROWNED NOT KNOWN (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, November 19. Many disasters to the small vessels around the English coast occurred during Friday’s great gale and the full extent of the loss of lives is not yet known. It was learned yesterday that five of the crew of a small schooner were lost when the vessel, in endeavouring to return to port on the north coast of Anglesey, was dashed on to the rocks and wrecked. The only survivor was a boy who was found yesterday in a weak state and when taken aboard the pilot boat collapsed. His condition is grave. No information regarding the crew of the steamer Eltham, which was found broken in two on the Cornish coast, has been received. Members of the crews of five vessels were washed overboard and drowned in heavy seas and the vessels limped back to port in a damaged condition. The German tug Seefolk, in response to wireless calls, picked up the steamer Lenarai off Land’s End and towed the damaged vessel into Falmouth after a perilous journey. during which the hauser snapped. The Italian steamer Folgere also arrived at Falmouth with her decks swept almost clean and three lifeboats smashed. The Yugo-Slavian steamer Dohodak, bound for Treiste, put into Dover to land the body of a boatman who was killed during heavy seas. —British Official Wireless.