A RACE WITH DEATH.
London, Monday. During the gale on the English coaßt on Saturday, at one coastguard station off the Cornish coast, the coastguardsmen spied a ship's punt with three men in it a mile off, and being rapidly driven shoreward bofore the heavy seas. The rocket apparatus was summoned from a station four miles away, and a tragic race ensued. Just as the brigade reached the top of the cliff the boat was caught by a huge wave, dashed on the rocks and smashed to pieces, the crew disappearing amid the mountainoas seas. The ship to which they belonged is believed to have been the Arnside, of Sunderland which carried a crew of 12 men. A three-masted steamer, My Own, laden with cement, was struck by heavy seas on Saturday, and the hatches were stove in. Water rushed into the hold, and the vessel sank at Shoreham, the crew of eight being drowned. The captain clung to the rigging, and was seen in the morning and rescued by the lifeboat.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 644, 18 February 1914, Page 3
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172A RACE WITH DEATH. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 644, 18 February 1914, Page 3
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