EMERGENCY FUEL
The action of the crew of a Dutch trawler in burning part of a herring cargo in the stokehold fires in order to maintain a head of steam recalls other occasions on which strange emergency fuel has enabled ships to reach port, says the "Manchester Guardian." In 1908 the luxurious yacht Vanadis, then a comparatively new craft, was half-way across the Atlantic on the way to the United States when she ran short of fuel, and her skipper was compelled to feed the furnaces with most of the costly panelling in the saloons and staterooms. Again, in July, 1914, the well-known P. and O. liner Mantua, hurrying to get out of the Baltic Sea, where she was cruising, before the declaration of the Great War, managed to keep up speed by supplementing her rapidly-diminishing fuel supply with furniture, deck-chairs, packing-cases, galley refuse, and, in fact* anything that would burn.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 20
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151EMERGENCY FUEL Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 4, 5 July 1938, Page 20
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