DRIFTING THREE WEEKS
REFRIGERATED SHIP DELAYED STOKERS "VERY TRUCULENT" (Rec. 11. 10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18. The refrigerated ship Princesa, with a cargo of Argentine meat, floated around for three. weeks as a result of trouble in the stokehold, according to stories toldby passengers who landed at Avonmouth, when the vessel arrived there to-dav after being picked up by tugs yesterday The .ship’s doctor said the coloured stokers “'became very truculent.’’ and blows were struck in the stokehold before the trouble was stopped. One of the 14 passengers said the • Princesa, drifted for three weeks after the stokers refused to keep up a head of steam The ship sometimes made a few knots, but more often made no > headway. The Bristol police met the Princesa at the dockside.
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Evening Star, Issue 25927, 19 October 1946, Page 7
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