SHIP BRINGS HERSELF HOME
Abandoned On Fire CROSSES IRISH SEA INTO COASTAL INLET (Received February 3, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON. February 2. With its engines running, a ship which iiad been abandoned by the crew after she had caught lire, crossed the Irish Sea and ran safely into an inlet on the west coast of Britain, stopping with little to spare from dangerous rocks. The ship steamed on after the crew had abandoned it till a lire on board was burnt out. Villagers saw the vessel in the inlet and told the lifeboat authorities, after which the ship was towed to port. A message from 'Madrid says that a Prize Court lias awarded £llO,OOO to the crews of two Spanish trawlers for salvaging the British tanker, Telena, after she was abandoned when set on fire by a German submarine in January of last. year.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 111, 4 February 1941, Page 7
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