FIRE IN HARBOUR
EIGHT VESSELS DESTROYED EMBERS THROWN ON FLOATING PETROLEUM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. ATHENS, September 9. (Received September 10, at 9.25 a.m.) Ten sailors were incinerated and several injured when seven sailing vessels and a steamer were destroyed as the result of the carelessness of a ship’s cook who threw burning embers on petroleum floating on the water in Piraeus Harbour, near the storage tanks of the Standard Oil Company. The flames spread quickly, catching a vessel taking in fuel. In a lew minutes seven other vessels and a small boat loaded with petroleum, were ablaze. The flames were mastered before they reached the shore where the oil tanks are situated.
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Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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112FIRE IN HARBOUR Evening Star, Issue 20585, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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