SHIP WITH PIER ON BOWS.—The Norwegian ship, Baalbek, anchored in the Thames Estuary, off Gravesend, last week with steel girders hanging over her bows. These belonged to the catwalks joining anti-aircraft towers which the Baalbek struck in a dense fog. Several persons were drowned as a result of the accident. The antiaircraft towers were erected in the Thames Estuary during the war and used as mountings for guns which operated against low-flying aircraft.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26987, 12 March 1953, Page 7
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73SHIP WITH PIER ON BOWS.—The Norwegian ship, Baalbek, anchored in the Thames Estuary, off Gravesend, last week with steel girders hanging over her bows. These belonged to the catwalks joining anti-aircraft towers which the Baalbek struck in a dense fog. Several persons were drowned as a result of the accident. The antiaircraft towers were erected in the Thames Estuary during the war and used as mountings for guns which operated against low-flying aircraft. Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26987, 12 March 1953, Page 7
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