FIVE MINUTES’ DELAY COST SEVENTEEN LIVES.
LONDON, December 20. Five minutes’ delay in telephoning a message cost seventeen lives in the Rye disaster. It was revealed at the Board of Trade inquiry that* the life-boat was launched at 6.45, and a message was received at 6.50 that the Alice’s crew had been rescued. This message originated from the North Foreland wireless station at 6.12, but it took thirty-eight minutes to reach Rye through the various coastguard stations, because the call was not treated as a life-saving message.—Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 21 December 1928, Page 8
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