SEAMEN’S ORDEAL
Rammed Tanker Sets Sea Ablaze ELEVEN PERISH Burnt To Death As They Tried To Swim By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright LONDON, July 28. Survivors of the French oiltanker Sunik, 5009 tons, which was rammed in a fog by the Swedish steamer Grangesberg, 4575 tons, caught fire, and sank off the Eddystone rocks, described a tciriole ordeal when the tanker’s 5000 tons of benzine converted the sea into a blazing cauldron for a. mile around. The captains of both vessels and nine members of the 'crew of the Sunik were thrown overboard when the Sunik’s boilers burst after the collision, and were burned to death as they tried to swim through the flames. A lifeboat began to burn while the scorched rowers struggled to get clear of the danger zone, and several of the survivors were badly burned. The bows of the Grangesberg caught fire while they were locked with the Sunik, and the steamer was still burning when it reached Falmouth this morning. The blazing Sunik lit up the sea for miles all night.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 10
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175SEAMEN’S ORDEAL Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 259, 31 July 1939, Page 10
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