FIRE ON A STEAMER.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12571, 14 August 1906, Page 7

FIRE ON A STEAMER.

THE BTJRGERMEISTER HACHMAN PCTO INTO TABLE BAY. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, August 13. The steamer Larosz, from Capetown, brings news of a fire aboard the Burhernieister Hachman, which is en route to Australian and New Zealand ports. She put into Capetown, to repair an accident to the pumps, and while lying at Table Bay a fi.ro was discovered, a spare bunker of coal having ignited in three separate places. Luckily the fire was discovered before it damaged cither the vessel or the cargo. Seven hundred tons of coal had to be removed before tlie seat of the outbreak was reached.

When tho Laresz left Capetown the conflagration was reported to bo practically under control, and it was expected the Burgermeister Haclunan would resume her voyage in a day or two. [The Burgermcistcr Hachmann left New York on May 30th for Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland Wellington, Lyttelton and Port Chalmers, and called at St. Vincent (Cape Verde Islands) on June 12th for blinker coal. Messrs Kaye and Carter, lo_ai age-its for tho steamer, advise us that the vessel resumed her voyage from Capetown on July 20tb, so that sho is now duo at Melbourne. Tho Burgermeister Hach-. Mann is -veil known in, Lyttelton, and 1 has already visited tho port twice with caTgo from "New York. She is a Ger-man-owned vessel of 4315 tons, and is commanded by Captain W. T. Aim.]