ON FIRE AT SEA
SHIP WITH REFUGEES
Rec. noon. LONDON, September 30
Seventy persons, including women and children are missing and feared to be . dead from the steamer Empire Patrol (3330 tons) which caught fire and was abandoned 46 miles northeast of Port Said when repatriating 562 Greek refugees from Abyssinia and East Africa. Search.for was made throughout last night, British naval vessels illuminating the scene with searchlights and R.A.F. bombers dropping relays of flares. ; Survivors from the crew say that more than 200 children' were aboard when the fire swept the Empire Patrol. Panic broke out, necessitating the women and children being forcibly lowered from the blazing ship to the rescue boats. The lowering gear of one crowded lifeboat is reported to have become jammed and the boat crashed into a choppy sea. A stiff wind increased the rescue difficulties.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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141ON FIRE AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 79, 1 October 1945, Page 7
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