BLACKENED HULK
LUXURY MOTOR-LINER
BERMUDA BURNT AT BELFAST
AFIRE ONCE BEFORE
(-Received 21sl November, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 20th November. An awesome spectacle was witnessed in Belfast at 1.20 o'clock in the morning, when llio luxury motor-liner Bermuda—a 19,000-tonncr —was on lire
from stem lo stern
Belfast Lough was lighted up and (In. Jlames were seen for miles around.
fclrangdy enough, the Bermuda was under repair because of fire damage <jn 17th Juno while lying at tho wharf at .U;imiJton, Bermuda. On that occasion it was necessary to submerge her to prevent the flames reaching her oil tanks.
Tho vessel is now only a blackened hulk. Several explosions, due to the bursting of acetylene drums, were heard miles away. Efforts to sink her failed, as it was impossible to reach the seacocks.
The Bermuda cost £1,500,000,
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 13
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135BLACKENED HULK Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 13
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