STORMS AND FLOODS
ENGLISH WEATHER SHIPPING AFFECTED. S.O.S. Signals Sent Out By Trawler. British Official Wireless. Received noon. Rugby, January 21. Owing to rough seas and a follow, ing gale, during the night the home-ward-bound P. & O. liner Straithaird, from Australia and India, could not put into Plymouth to-day. She went on direct to Tilbury. The Aberdeen lifeboat put but late this afternoon in response to SOS from the Aberdeen trawler Straithebrie. The lifeboat is faced with an eight, hours’ journey through heavy seas before she can reach tho trawler. On land, floods are reported from the Midlands and the West Country. Snow is lying in many parts.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1937, Page 5
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108STORMS AND FLOODS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 340, 22 January 1937, Page 5
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