£25,000 TRAWLER BURNT OUT: WOMAN’S ESCAPE
(N.Z.P.A.—Reuter—Copyright.) SYDNEY. May 20. The trawler Trusan. of 75 tons, valued at £25,000 was burned out at her moorings in Saltpan Bay, Pittwater, north of Sydney early this morning. The wife of the owner. Mrs. Alice Stevenson, aged 30 who was living aboard, escaped by clambering over the side on to a make shift raft of floating timbers. Her plight was noted by people ashore as the flames blazed up and she was rescued by a dinghy. She told her husband, who was ashore at the time, that she tripped while carrying a lighted oil lamp down the aft companionway.
The lantern smashed against the deck and the blazing oil set fire to the new paint.
Firemen stood helplessly by while the craft blazed from stem to stern.
About 1000 gallons of Diesel oil was stored aboard. The intense heat drove off several attempts to sink the vessel by cutting a hole in the side.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22952, 21 May 1949, Page 5
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