VIOLENT GALE.
EXPERIENCED IN BRITAIN. WRECK OF A SCHOONER. AIR FLIGHTS POSTPONED. (Official wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 3. Britain and the surrounding coasts to-day experienced a violent gale. The French three-masted schooner Sainte Anne, 186 tons, went ashore at Port Leven, near Penzance, and became a total loss, although the crew were saved. Mr J. A. Mollison, the holder of the Australlan-Brltain flight record, flew to Lytnpne to-day, but postponed his intended start for the Cape, The Prince of Wales set out by air for Liverpool, but the weather became so violent that he was advised to alight and continue his journey by train. The gale prevented the Baradlne from entering Plymouth. She was hove to off the Eddystone all night.
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Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18478, 5 November 1931, Page 7
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120VIOLENT GALE. Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18478, 5 November 1931, Page 7
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