SHIPS WRECKED

Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1932, Page 2

SHIPS WRECKED

STORMS ON ENGLISH COAST. GOOD WORK BY 'LIFEBOAT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 18. During the recent week-end storfn there were several shipwrecks round the English coast, mudh heroi-m being displayed in effecting rescues of the crews involved. Twenty-nine of the crew of the Italian cargo steamer “Monte Nevoso,” of 5,843 tons, which was stranded off the Norfolk coast, were taken into, Gorleston by the Gromer lifeboat, which, on .returning to its station after sixty hour?, was greeted with cheers by large crowds and the pealing of church bel'-s. The captain and three of tibe officers of the 'Monte Nevc.so refused to leave tile ship, but after the- vessel had broken up -they used one of the ship’s boats, and they were later found by a Lowe-toft motor vessel and towed into port. Three lifeboats of H.M.S. “Broke ’ and a flying boat searched the Channel without success for aircraft which had sent out distress signals, which were heard by five ships, one having seen a rocket fired. No aeroplane, •either British or foreign, however, has so far been reported missing. After ten hours in a small, open Hnat, the lerew of the Newcastle steamer “Brnedale,” which foundered off the Needles, Isle of Wight, early yesterday morning, succeeded in making port.