STORMS IN ENGLAND.
The last half of the month of October in England saw fearfnl havoc amongst the snipping. A correspondent of a contemporary writes; —' “The storms have been chronic daring the past fortnight, and from all parts of the coast we received day by day the most distressing accounts of shipwrecks of all kinds, of large vessels foundering and all hands lost, and of fishing boats overwhelmed by the hundred. It is said that the fishermen of Great Tarmonth have lost upwards of £IO,OOO worth of boats in the past fortnight. In Berwickshire three times that amount of damage has been done, and what is still more deplorable, over 200 men have been drowned. These are the losses of two places only, and it is to be feared that all round the coast the destruction has been equally fearful. Of more strictly maritime disasters the tale is not less distressing. According to Lloyd’s official list, in the one week between Oct. 12 and Oct. 19—and within this period were included two of the severest gales of the last seven years —upwards of 220 vessels were lost."
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2738, 30 December 1881, Page 2
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187STORMS IN ENGLAND. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2738, 30 December 1881, Page 2
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