Three Die In Port Fire
SETE (Southern France), July 4. A British yachtsman and two Italian seamen died in a holocaust of blazing oil yesterday when the 6155-ton Italian tanker Ombrina hit a swing bridge in the Mediterranean port of Sete. With oil pouring from a gash in her hull, the Ombrina then collided with the Londonregistered yacht Branbuba. A lighted gas stove aboard the yacht is believed to have set fire to the oil, sending a 50ft high wall of flame roaring across the water.
The yacht burned and sank. The charred body of the yachtsman, named as Mr Leslie Arthur Harris, aged 29, an engineer, of Epsom, Surrey, was recovered later.
A companion of Mr Harris was unhurt but two seamen were killed and two injured aboard the tanker.
Three cargo ships were also set on fire. They were towed to open water and the fires extinguished.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28939, 6 July 1959, Page 11
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