The Archive · 1929

Obsolete Destroyer Wrecked

Further Havoc by Storm Sweeping British Isles London, Dee. 14.

"Wreckage was washed ashore Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, last night with the name Tormentor thereon."

This Inconic announcement - by Lleyds—tho length of, whose casualty lists recently has been: eloquent evidence of the havoc eaus~ ed by the December gales—seems to seal the fate of the obsolete destroyer Tormentor, which broke adrift from a tug and vanished in the Bristol Channel on December 9.

Four men were aboard.

The Deal and Ramszate lifeboats were hurriedly launched this morning to investigate a series of urgent distress signals fired from the Brake Lightship on the Goodwins.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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