STORM IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, BAY OF BISCAY
Shipping Runs For Shelter
LONDON, Nov. 21 (Reed. 7.10 pm). A 70-miles an hour gale sweepin” the English Channel during the nigh', has forced 25 ships to run for shelter at Margate. In the Bay of Biscay, the Israeli motor vessel Japos (546 tons), with : crew of eight, radioed that it is sinking in a storm. The Dutch cruisrr carrying Queen
Juliana and Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands to Britain for a State vi.-.i . is being battered in Ihe Channel by giant seas, and it is feared will be unable to berth at Dover today. Al the height of the .gale two Royal Navy destroyers waiting off Dover to escort the Dutch cruiser, w£re ordered to search for a United States Air Force pilot whose jet-fighter crqghed into the sea off Dea). Rainstorms Hooded the basements in six London suburbs last night and put the roads from Essex to London under IS inches of water.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 22 November 1950, Page 5
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