Liner ***** Rocks During Gale: Crews ***** Escape -- The wrecked Herefordshire battered by the waves against the rocky coast of Cardigan Island. Four Scottish seamen has an amazing escape from death when the Bibby liner Herefordshire (7,217 tons) in tow from Dartmouth to the Clyde to be broken up, broke away from tuge and drifted on the rocks at Cardigan Island, St. George's channel during the great gale which raged all round the coast. May 21, 1934. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).