ALL ABOARD RESCUED
JAPANESE FREIGHTER FIRE AND EXPLOSION (Reed. July 20, 9 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. Captain L. E. Hawkins, master of an American tanker reported by radio that he had rescued (the 209 passengers and crew of the Japanese freighter Bokuyo Maru, after a fire and explosion 3750 miles east of San Francisco. The message stated that the tanker arrived on the scene in a dense fog six hours after the final SOS and found the passengers and crew in lifeboats floating amid much wreckage. The fire broke out in the Bokuyo Maru's nitrate. The light to extinguish the outbreak was in vain, and the lifeboats got away just before the flames enveloped the vessel from stem to stern.
It lias not been learned whether the freighter sank. The survivors are .proceeding to Honolulu unless they are transferred to a Japanese ship at sea.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19994, 20 July 1939, Page 5
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