ROUND BRITISH COAST

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 72, 22 September 1930, Page 9

ROUND BRITISH COAST

EIGHTY MILE AN HOUR GALE

SHIPPING SUFFERS

British Official Wireless. (Received 22nd September, 11 a.m.) MTGBY, 20th September. A heavy south-westerly gale is being experienced in Britain to-day, and very rough seas arcs raging round tho coasts. The gale began yestorday evening, and a wind velocity of Cl miles an hour was experienced at Valencia, South-west Ireland, and not much less at tho Seilly Islands and along tho English Channel. This morning tho gale grew worse, and in tho Straits of Dover was said to be as bad as many experienced there for some' years, with a wind as hign as 70 miles an hour. Most of tho slapping in the Channel - took shelter. This morning tho people of Folkestone watched a big Imperial Airways liner fighting her way inland. She was at times apparently held stationary by tho terrific wind, but arrived safely at Lympne. Much minor damage was reported in different parts of the country. During the early morning two goods trains from Paddington collided in a blinding rainstorm near Beading, and. although no ono was injured, traffic was disorganised for some hours. In many places trees were uprooted and crops damaged.

At Weymouth and Portland, where the gale was estimated at 80 miles an hour, with mountainous seas running, battered vessels came limping to shelter every hour through the night. The Weymouth lifeboat fought her way to a small French ketch, tho Leone, which dragged her anchor and was drifting on to a reef, and, aided by the searchlights of battleships, took off tho crew.