SHIP AFIRE
CREW’S DESPERATE FIGHT
IX RAGING GALE
FLAMES FINALLY SUBDUED
BY CABLE—PRU,S3 ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, (Received Jan. 16, 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 15. The crew of the Swedish motor ship Tankard had a desperate fight against fire on the North Sea in the height of a gale. The flames imprisoned the chief engineer, who was suffocated in his cabin. The crew pulled the captain’s wife through a porthole and up the ship’s side.
The vessel arrived safely in England —Sydney Sun'Cab^i-
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 January 1925, Page 5
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80SHIP AFIRE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 January 1925, Page 5
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