GALES SWEEP BRITAIN.
British Official Wireless. RUGBY, October 31. Heavy gales, accompanied in some parts by torrential rains, swept the British Isles during the week-end and caused considerable damage on sea and land. One gust of wind at Folkestone Harbour was registered as having a velocity of 110 miles an hour, which is the highest wind speed recorded since the instrument was installed. All English Channel ports were severely swept by seas. Life-boats were summoned to vessels in distress off the coast in a number of places and several thrilling rescues were effected. The Dover life-boat was out for many hours on Saturday night in search of a German mail freight aeroplane which was engaged on a night journey from Croydon, and became lost over the Channel. Yesterday the search was taken up by machines from the Royal Air Force, but no trace of the ’plane or of wreckage was found.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 600, 2 November 1932, Page 1
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