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I have just read about it in the Preston Pages , some young lad recognised the effect of the tide going out a long long way, he had studied what they used to call Tidal Waves at school and warned every one.
I was secptical about what dear old Emily, bless her, had told me.
Found this though very interesting.
At around 7:30 p.m. (about an hour and a quarter after low tide) on 20 July 1929 a large, tsumami-like wave struck the Kent and Sussex coasts, busy with tourists, and drowned two people. The 22 July Times described the event at a number of locations: At Brighton and Worthing sudden downpours of rain and high winds accompanied the wave, but at Folkestone and Hastings, where one person drowned at each site, the weather was clear, and estimates projected the unexpected wave at approximately 3.5 and 6 meters high, respectively. Uniquely, at Folkestone, observers reported eight large waves entering the harbor, picking up motorboats lying on sand flats, exposed close to low tide, and transporting them more than 180 meters along the length of the inner harbor. The wave washed away a sixteen-year-old boy who was fishing from the breakwater, his body never to be recovered. If this event had coincided with the high tide, then the number of casualties would probably have been much greater and damage more extensive. C. M. K. Douglas suggested that a squall line traveling up the English Channel, coincident with rain and wind, generated the wave, so it may be referred to as a "meteorological tsunami" (1929).
Further details from The Times give a fuller picture of the event (1929, 14). At Brighton "a line of foam rushed towards the beach, while pleasure boats raced for safety. Almost before the crowds realized what was happening torrential rains poured down and the wave rushed far up the beach, carrying away chains and bathers' clothes." At Folkestone
a number of bathers and people paddling were caught by the tide and were in danger of being drowned. Mrs Ruth Kirby ... and her five and six year old daughters ... were injured by being cast on the rocks and had to be taken to hospital for treatment. The mother was only able to catch her two children as they were submerged by the sea, but was fortunately able to retain her hold on them. Mrs Elizabeth Hill ... and two Folkestone boys named Whiting and Pryor were also injured by being thrown on the rocks .... A small boat with two men in it was lifted up on to the rocks at East Cliff and left high and dry.
At Hastings "Mrs Lillian Pollard ... was drowned when the boat in which she was a passenger capsized. ... The wave overturned the boat and all its occupants went under. ... At St. Leonard's two boats were capsized by the wave and all the occupants were thrown into the sea." On the east side of the Isle of Wight "a bank of sand swept along the sea front with considerable force. Many boats were overturned on Sandown beach." Finally, at Worthing "the sea was churned up into a wave quite 6th. [1.8 meters] high, which came sweeping towards the shore at an alarming pace. It extended as far as the eye could see and within five minutes the sea had risen from low to half full tide. The people on the front and those who were bathing or paddling ran for sh
I was secptical about what dear old Emily, bless her, had told me.
Found this though very interesting.
At around 7:30 p.m. (about an hour and a quarter after low tide) on 20 July 1929 a large, tsumami-like wave struck the Kent and Sussex coasts, busy with tourists, and drowned two people. The 22 July Times described the event at a number of locations: At Brighton and Worthing sudden downpours of rain and high winds accompanied the wave, but at Folkestone and Hastings, where one person drowned at each site, the weather was clear, and estimates projected the unexpected wave at approximately 3.5 and 6 meters high, respectively. Uniquely, at Folkestone, observers reported eight large waves entering the harbor, picking up motorboats lying on sand flats, exposed close to low tide, and transporting them more than 180 meters along the length of the inner harbor. The wave washed away a sixteen-year-old boy who was fishing from the breakwater, his body never to be recovered. If this event had coincided with the high tide, then the number of casualties would probably have been much greater and damage more extensive. C. M. K. Douglas suggested that a squall line traveling up the English Channel, coincident with rain and wind, generated the wave, so it may be referred to as a "meteorological tsunami" (1929).
Further details from The Times give a fuller picture of the event (1929, 14). At Brighton "a line of foam rushed towards the beach, while pleasure boats raced for safety. Almost before the crowds realized what was happening torrential rains poured down and the wave rushed far up the beach, carrying away chains and bathers' clothes." At Folkestone
a number of bathers and people paddling were caught by the tide and were in danger of being drowned. Mrs Ruth Kirby ... and her five and six year old daughters ... were injured by being cast on the rocks and had to be taken to hospital for treatment. The mother was only able to catch her two children as they were submerged by the sea, but was fortunately able to retain her hold on them. Mrs Elizabeth Hill ... and two Folkestone boys named Whiting and Pryor were also injured by being thrown on the rocks .... A small boat with two men in it was lifted up on to the rocks at East Cliff and left high and dry.
At Hastings "Mrs Lillian Pollard ... was drowned when the boat in which she was a passenger capsized. ... The wave overturned the boat and all its occupants went under. ... At St. Leonard's two boats were capsized by the wave and all the occupants were thrown into the sea." On the east side of the Isle of Wight "a bank of sand swept along the sea front with considerable force. Many boats were overturned on Sandown beach." Finally, at Worthing "the sea was churned up into a wave quite 6th. [1.8 meters] high, which came sweeping towards the shore at an alarming pace. It extended as far as the eye could see and within five minutes the sea had risen from low to half full tide. The people on the front and those who were bathing or paddling ran for sh
