FOG IN THE CHANNEL.

Wairarapa Age, 27 February 1934, Page 5

FOG IN THE CHANNEL.

SHIPPING MUCH DELAYED. COLLISION OFF THE ESSEX COAST. RUGBY, February 24. Fog over the coasts of Southern England caused considerable delay to shipping last night, and many vessels found it necessary to drop anchor a few miles from port. The cruiser Curaeoa, in which Field-Marshal Lord Allenby and Admiral Sir Roger Keyes returned from Belgium yesterday, after attending the funeral of King Albert, was much delayed, and finally anchored off Dover, and Lord Allenby and Admiral Keyes, with a detachment of Royal Marines and representatives of the Royal Air Force, due at Southampton yesterday afternoon, did not reach port till this morning.

In London the fog is less dense than on the coast, but in the early hours road traffic had to proceed slowly and with great caution.

Earlier in. the day shipping was disorganised owing to fog at Southampton Water and the Thames Eistuary. The Danish steamer Maja, of 2303 tons, and the London steamer Camberwell, of 1577 tons, were in collision off the Essex coast and the Clacton lifeboat put out to the scene of the accident, but returned after the lifeboat men had boarded both vessels and satisfied themselves that, though bo-th were damaged, no lives were in danger. Fog delayed the departure from Southampton by twelve hours of the hner President Roosevelt, bound for New York with passengers and nearly 22,-000,000 worth of gold. The Hamburg America liner New York was delayed on its journey from Hamburg to Southampton, and it was decided that she should take on passengers and nearly £2,000,000 worth of gold and Cowes Bead.—(British Official Wireless.Y