AUSTRALIAN SHIPS
Fire Brigades To Be Formed Sydney. May .17. Following the disastrous fire on the steamer Taroona at Melbourne on May 10, fire brigades are being organised for every passenger vessel on I he A ustralian coast. This announcement was made by the Director of Navigation, Captain J. K. Davis, who added that a searching investigation would be made into the cause of the Taroona fire. He said that ar electric short circuit was not responsible for the outbreak, because the ship’s power was turned off at the time. Damage estimated at between £BOOO and £lO,OOO was caused in the Tasmanian passenger steamer Taroona (4286 tons) at her river berth at Melbourne. The fire began in a staircase between A and B decks, near the smoking-room, and spread with amazing rapidity through A fleck, destroying valuable panelling, fittings. and furniture in many rooms, and smashing all windows and portholes on A deck.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 9
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153AUSTRALIAN SHIPS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 197, 18 May 1936, Page 9
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