CHANNEL STORM
WORST FOR MANY YEARS BATTERED STEAMERS SEEK SHELTER. MEMBERS OF SHIP’S CREW WASHED OVERBOARD. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 24. Badly battered in the worst storm known on the Cornish, coast for many years, no fewer than eight steamers put into Falmouth harbour today and four others are on their way to the port. A man was washed overboard from the steamer Langlee Brook, and other ships report that their crews suffered broken legs and ribs and other injuries.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 7
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81CHANNEL STORM Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 7
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