STORM ON LAND AND SEA.
■: ' TWENTY-FOUR DEATHS. NO CHRISTMAS FOR "JACK." BT TELEGRAPH—rRESS ASSOCIATION —COPTRIGIIT. • ■ . V. London, December 15. Heavy gales . have. been experienced in Great Britain. In tho Channel, according to a Lloyd's report) there have been thirty minor wrecks. . '.. Continued floods in the Western Counties and the Thames Valley have caused damage. The Thomas Lawson, a 500-ton petroleum boat, capsized while riding at anchor at Scilly Islands, Cornwall. Sixteen porsons wero drowned. Threo Wero saved. , ' ■ A hoavy sea swamped a steam cuttor bolonging to the torpedo gunboat Speedwell at Sheerness pior. Eight bluejackets who were starting on Christmas leave, were drowned. I 1
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19071217.2.23
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 71, 17 December 1907, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
105STORM ON LAND AND SEA. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 71, 17 December 1907, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in