N.S.W. TRAWLER LOST BY FIRE
SYDNEY, May 20
The trawler, Trusan, of 75 tons, valued at £25,000 was burned out at her moorings in Saltpan Bay, Pitt Water, 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 makeshift raft of floating timbers. Her plight was noticed by people ashore, and she was rescued by a dinghy. She told her husband, who was ashore at the time, that sh? trinped while carrying a lighted oil lamp down the aft companionway. The lantern smashed against the deck and blazing oil set fire to new paint. Firemen stood helplessly by while th e 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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Grey River Argus, 21 May 1949, Page 8
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