SHIP UNDER ESCORT
ASSAULT AGAINST OFFICERS REPORTED (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 17. The British steamship Princesa is expected at Barry this afternoon with an escort, the Royal Navy frigate, Burghead Bay, which put a boarding party of one officer and five ratings aboard the Princesa. An Admiralty spokesman said he understood there had been insubordination by a coloured fireman and an assault against officers of the Princesa, whose master issued an S.O.S. for beln.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 7
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75SHIP UNDER ESCORT Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1946, Page 7
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