BLAZE AT SEA
UNKNOWN TANKER
EXPLOSION SEQUEL
VESSEL- SINKS
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, January 17. The crew of a lifeboat on the south-west coast were attending a funeral when an explosion at sea necessitated their launching a boat and speeding to the aid of an unknown 10,000-ton tanker which was ablaze from end to end. Other craft followed, including a patrol boat, which landed survivors after the tanker sank. A message from Stockholm states that German warships in the Baltic captured the Swedish steamer Birger Jarl (761 tons), which had 20 Americans on board, and escorted her to j Swinemunde. The Americans; will be permitted to proceed, to the United States via Sweden. Lisbon reports that ■■ the . Dutch steamer Poelau-Bras landed 58 members of the crew- and two passengers of the motor-ship Arendskerk, which was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat in the Bay of Biscay. They had been transhipped from the Italian steamer Fedora. , .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 9
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155BLAZE AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1940, Page 9
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