GALE IN THE CHANNEL
VESSELS IN DISTRESS
AIR LINER'S ORDEAL
LONDON", 20th September.
Furious gales, all day long made the Channel impassable except 'for tho strongest and largest steamers. At least a dozen big steamers, including the Templemead and Caithness, were sending out signals of distress, besides others in the Atlantic. A French, schooner was swept on the rocks.
The liner Rotorua, from New Zealand, arrived at Southampton eight hours late.
A tug which put out to assist tho Italian steamer Tuseania returned leaking, with her f bridgo washed away and the flag halfmast for a sailor who had been sw-opt overboard.
At Folkestone crowds watched a nmlti-engined air liner, battling against an 83-mile gale, brought almost to a standstill in mid-ain
The seas at Portland washed over the retaining wall and swept into the town, breaking into a cinema and wotting the audience.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 72, 22 September 1930, Page 9
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