AMERICAN TANKER REPORTED ON FIRE: NOT THE SOMERSET
(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, April 15. . Lloyds, which reported yesterday that the British steamer Somerset was on fire off Aruba (West Indies) now state that the Somerset’s owners have received a message from their Curacao agents saying that the ship on fire is the American tanker, Fisher’s Hill, not the Somerset. A Singapore message says that the Straits Steamship Company’s Empire Passmore radioed an S.O.S. and stated that the vessel struck a mine off Horsburgh lighthouse, 15 miles from Singapore. The Empire Passmore, which is going to Singapore with a cargo of rice from Siam, was later taken in tow. The damage is said to be not extensive.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1947, Page 7
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