SHIPS COLLIDE NEAR SAN FRANCISCO
Crew of One Takes to Boats
COASTGUARD CUTTER ON WAY TO SCENE By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received July 24, 5.40 p.m.) San Francisco, July 23. The steamships Calmar and Koryu Maru collided 10 miles south of the San Francisco lightship at 9.2 p.m., Pacific standard time. Twenty minutes later the crew of the Calmar reported that they were taking to lifeboats. The Koryu Maru is apparently in no danger. The coastguard cutter Shawnee is expected to reach the scene at midnight.
The Calmar was bound from San Francisco for East Coast pov.s and the Koryu Jlaru was inward bound from Yokohama.
The Koryu Maru is a Japanese motorship of 6650 tons gross built in Japan in 1931 and owned by the Iliroumi Slioji, Kabushiki Kaisha Ltd., Nagasaki. The Calmar, ex Albert Jeffries, ex Eastern Queen, is an American steamer of 5787 tons gross owned by the Calmar S.S. Corporation, New York. She was built in Japan in 1920.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 255, 25 July 1935, Page 9
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