EXPLOSION IN GUN TURRET
ACCIDENT ON BELLONA ONE RATING SLIGHTLY INJURED (New Zealand Press Association.) AUCKLAND. October 16. A rating in H.M.N.Z.S. Bellona. Able Seaman David Glasscock, of Takapuna, was slightly injured in a gun turret accident during exercises in Australian waters. The Navy Office in Wellington received advice from the cruiser to-day that the seaman received cordite burns. He is in the Bellona’s sick bay. This information was obtained from th? Navy Office when a Press Association cablegram from Melbourne was referred to it. The cablegram stated that one officer and three ratings were injured in a gun turret explosion aboard the Bellona, and that their condition was not serious. The Navy Office had no information to that effect
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 6
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