STEAMER ADRIATIC
EXPLOSION OH BOARD. CASUALTIES IN STOKEHOLD. THREE FIREMEN KILLED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, August 11. (Received August 12, at 9.5 a.in.) The Boston navy wireless station received a call for assistance from the liner Adriatic, there having been an explosion in her hold. Later the captain reported that ho would bo able to proceed unaided. The ship is 1,200 miles off Now York. , Another message states that the captain wirelessed that two firemen were killed and one is missing, and five trimmers and electricians were seriously injifted through a bunker explosion. The vessel is not damaged.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [The Adriatic is a steel twin-screw fourmasted steamer of 24,541 tons gross register, and is owned by the White Star Line, of Liverpool. She'was built by Haxland and Wolff, Ltd., at Belfast, in 1906, and is employed in the passenger service between Liverpool and New York. The vessel's dimensions are : Length 709 ft 2in, breadth 75ft sin, depth 52ft sin.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 3
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162STEAMER ADRIATIC Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 3
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