Southend Pier Damaged
Southend Pier Cut in Two
During the gale yesterday morning the Violette, of London, laden with 300 tons of timber, parted from her anchor while moored off Southend, and after drifting about the estuary for some time crashed into the pier between the old and new pierheads.
The vessel carried away several yards of the pier and bacame wedged among broken piles and timber, completely isolating the steamboat extension and bandstand from the main structure.
No casualties are reported, the crew landing on the pier.
The Violette is a ferro-concrete, oil engine auxiliary three-masted schooner of 292 tons.
More about the History of Southend Pier
1921
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