GALE IN BRITAIN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1025, 14 January 1911, Page 5

GALE IN BRITAIN.

MANY SHIPWRECKS. LIFEBOATS' GALLANT RESCUES. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright. (Rcc. January 13, 9.20 p.m.) r London, January 13. An abnormal galo is raging in East and South Britain. Tho wind is blowing with a velocity of sixty miles ar. hour, and occasionally with greater violence. Smaller vessels hare suffered severely, and the lifeboats have mado a number 'of gallant rescues in tho faco of mountainous seas. Tho steam sr Bushmills struck tho Nimrod rocks, near Holyhead. Tho crew of 21 men escaped in tho boats. London, January 13. A gale is raging over tho country. Thero have been scores of wrecks and numerous fatalities on tho coasts. The wind detached tho coping of a tavern in Blackfriars Road, which fell, killing a school mistress and injuring two other persons. Tho lifeboats at Deal wero driven back when attempting a rescue, and capsized on running ashore. WRECKS ELSEWHERE. ASHORE ON THE DUTCH COAST. Amsterdam, January 12. Tho steamer Selby Abbey, 1039 tons, from Hull for Rotterdam, is ashore near the Hook of Holland. Some of thoso aboard were landed. There are twentyfour of the crew and five passengers still aboard. There is a high sea, and the steamer's position is. dangerous. (Rec. January 13, 9.20 p.m.). London, January 13. A life-boat has rescued the steamer Selby Abbey's passengers, but tho crow are still aboard. BELLINGER RIVER WRECK. Sydney, January 13. Tho coastal steamer Rosedalo, 247 tons, which is ashoro at tho Bellinger, River Heads, is considered to bo a complete wreck. While being towed in the Bellinger River, a liugo wave lifted her on to a sand spit', where she is hard and fast. The passengers wero unable to got off, and during tho night spent an anxious time, as seas wero crashing over the vessel. They landed soon after daybreak. This was possiblo through tho Rosedalo shifting close-to the breakwater. It is supposed that the captain was trying to avoid tho submerged wreck of tho schooner Elliston, in the middle of the fairway, and that this caused the accident.

Tho Rosodale had previously been stranded in tho same locality, but was ultimately refloated. This time tho prospects'of refloating her are remote.