FIRE AT SEA
ON STEAMER FROM CALCUTTA SUBDUED AFTER SEVEN HOURS’ HARD FIGHT (Rec. October 11. 8.15 pm.) Adelaide. October 14. The British-India steamer Janus, from Calcutta to Adelaide, arrived today. When sixty miles west of Neptune Island, off the western side of the entrance to Spencer Gulf, in a raping gale, a fire broke out in the shelter deck. It was found that bales of kapoc and corn-sacks in No 3 hatch were alight After seven hours’ hard fight the fire was subdued, but it was necessary to jettison many tons of cargo.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 17, 15 October 1926, Page 9
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94FIRE AT SEA Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 17, 15 October 1926, Page 9
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