DENSE FOG

Hokitika Guardian, 28 February 1929, Page 3

DENSE FOG

ACCIDENTS AT SEA. COLD WEATHER RETURNS AGAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 25. Dense fog enveloped the whole of England during the week-end, and interfered with coastal shipping from the English Channel to the Clyde. Several mishaps occurred, but no lives were lost. The channel steamer Arundel, on the journey from Dieppe to Newhaven, with fifty passengers, collided near the entrance to Newhaven Harbour with the collier Tamwtorth. The Arundel’s bows were holed, but she was able to proceed, a bulkhead preventing flooding. A lifeboat stood by till the Tamworth was beached.

The Channels Islands steamer St Helier was held up for nine hours in Weymouth Bay owing to the fog. The Hey sh am -Be [fast steamer Duke of Argyle reached Belfast six hours late yesterday, after being aground off the Isle of Man. The mail steamer St George, after leaving Harwich for the Hook of Holland on Saturday night, ran aground near Felixstowe and remained fast till noon yesterday, when she proceeded on her journey south. The Goodwyn lightship was rammed by the German steamer Oliva in the fog and damaged. Cold weather, with a prospect of further snow, returned last night, and skating is again possible in Lincolnshire and on largo lakes and reservoirs near London.