Familiar to almost every schoolboy is the Arabian Nights tale of the deadly lodestone island which drew the iron nails and bolts from passing ships, causing them to be wrecked on its jagged cliffs. Last week one G. H. Gray. Lloyd's agent at Bridlington, England, declared that he had discovered a modern parallel to this myth.
Agent Gray was seeking to explain the wreck of the fishing steamer Lord Ernli, fourth vessel this year to run ashore on craggy Flamborough Head. This sharp promontory sticks out nearly ten miles into the North Sea between...
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