3-086-032 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Tynemouth Jetty during the recent storm, 1898. 'the middle of last week brought a gale which raged with increasing volume throughout Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, carrying havoc of all kinds in its train. Snow fell heavily in various parts of the country, and railway traffic was seriously impeded...It was at sea and on the coast, however, that the stormy weather wrought its worst effects. At Hartlepool a Norwegian schooner went ashore, and her crew were only rescued by the life-boat with great peril. Several arduous rescues were made off the Yarmouth coast, not, unhappily, without loss of life. At Margate the attempt to launch the life-boat in the face of a heavy sea resulted in the drowning of four of the horses attached to the boat's carriage, and damage to the boat itself, which finally forbade the putting out to sea. At Lowestoft great masses of cliff were washed away, to the peril of many houses; and Herne Bay, Deal, Margate, and other places have sustained lamentable damage to their sea-fronts. From all round the coast, indeed, comes the same melancholy tale of wreckage, at sea and on shore, accompanied, in but too many cases, by loss of life'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.