HOLOCAUST AT SEA
U.S. SHIPS IN COLLISION MOST OF CREWS. KILLED (10.30) WASHINGTON, March 13. All but nine members of the crews of a Liberty ship and a tanker perished in Tires and explosions when the ships collided at sea in a dense fog and burned and detonated for three weeks. The Liberty ship was fully loaded with combustibles of the highest inflammability, including glycerine, resin, wax, oil, bales of cotton and tons of magnesium. The tanker was carrying high octane aviation spirit. The hulk of the Liberty ship has been towed to New York. Nope of her welding showed any cracks despite the holocaust.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21353, 14 March 1944, Page 3
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105HOLOCAUST AT SEA Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21353, 14 March 1944, Page 3
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