ANOTHER SHIP FIRE
CAUSED BY BURST OIL PIPE GERMAN PRISONERS ON BOARD (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 21. All the fire-fifhting resources of Mersey dockside were brought into action to extinguish a fire on an American vessel, the Cape Douglas. While thousands of dockworkers watched a fleet of tenders with motor pumps and foam equipment race to the vessel, the radio was used between firemen and hastily improvised floating headquarters. The outbreak was subdued two hours after the alarm was given. Later the Cape Douglas was towed into Birkenhead and 1000 German prisoners of war disembarked under guard. British army personnel, who were guarding them, and the firemen also left the ship, but the crew of the Cape Douglas remained aboard. There were no casualties. 1 The Mersey fire chief stated that the outbreak was caused by a bursting oilpipe, which caught on fire.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 March 1946, Page 5
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