The great storm referred to in the wireless message above was one of that ever raged shipping and in lives were still greater. I: raged during November}
170%. The loss sustained] at £2,000,- 000.
The number of persons drowned in the Severn and the Thames, and lost on the coast of Holland and in ships blown from their anchors anil heard of afterwards, lit to have been about $,000.. Twelve men-of-war with more than board were lost within their own shore.—Trees! torn up by the roots, 17,000 of them alone in Kent.
The Faldystone lighthouse was destroyed and in it the ingenious it. Winstanley, and the who Were with him.
The Bishop of Bath and Wells and lady were killed in bed in their were also lost and in one level alone 15,000 sheep were drown-
The next storm of phenomenal force that occurred during the month of November took place in 1821 when a gale swept the coast of Eng~ Tand from Durham to Cornwall and many ships and lives were lost. Bantry Bay Lighthouse Destroyed Forty-two fisherman lost their lives in 1857 when a storm struck the north-east coast of England during the month of November, and two years Inter, the Royal Charter went down in the tremendous storms that swept England during the last days of October and early November of that year. Fifty wrecks were the result of a similar storm which occurred in November, 1861, and raged along the north-east coast. Destruction of life and property was reported by gales over England on November 26 snd 27 in the year! singe winds in the Channel and south and Lexa te increase until a ter ible gale was blowing which caused] much destruction of life and property. A day later another gale! strack the west coast of England, ion Novemier 3 yet another storm arose, this time on the south-feast coast. which also tock its toll of life and property slond, north England and Treland were visited by destructive winds in 1888 about the middle of November, and on this occasion con-
Siderable damage was done to the famous bride over the Firth of Forth.
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