BLIZZARDS IN BRITAIN.
i -*- " 1 DISTRESSING NAVAL FATALITY. j FORTY-FIVE SAILORS DROWNED. I . [UNII'MJ pBKHt AMOOJATION.i • London f ' March 31. \ A distressing naval mishap occurred during Tuesday's blizzard. Though during the height of the storm many naval liberty men took to the boats and returned to their ships, all reached their destinations safely except a cutter belonging to the Conquest, which a steam launch was towing, when the hawser broke. It is believed the cutter capsized. Forty-five men were drowned, of whom thirty-siven were married.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 7
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85BLIZZARDS IN BRITAIN. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 100, 3 April 1916, Page 7
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