LIVES LOST IN VAIN
PHONE CALL DELAYED RYE LIFEBOAT TRAGEDY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Thursday. At the Board of Trade inquiry into the disaster to the Rye lifeboat in the gale of November 14, when 17 lives were lost, it was stated that a delay of five minutes in a telephone call caused the tragedy. The lifeboat was launched at 6.45 a.m. A message was received at 6.50 a.m. saying the crew of the Alice, the ship in distress, had been rescued. This message was sent from the North Foreland wireless station at 6.12, but it took 38 minutes to reach Rye through the various coastguard stations, because the call was not treated as a life-saving message.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 9
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119LIVES LOST IN VAIN Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 543, 21 December 1928, Page 9
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