sentences:  On the night of 14 November 1928 a south-west gale swept up the Channel with winds in excess of 80 mph (128 km/h).Just after 4 o'clock in the morning of the 15th, the small Steamer "Alice of Riga", laden with a cargo of bricks, was in collision with the larger German vessel "Smyrna".In the collision the "Alice" lost her rudder and had a hole torn in her side.