ITALIAN SHIP SINKS
Petrol Explosion SURVIVORS PICKED UP (Received 16 2 p.m.) LONDON March 15. “The Times” correspondent at Cairo says that the Italian tramp steamer Marchigiano, laden with drums of bendine for the Italian armies and sailing from Genoa to Assab, exploded with out warning 125 miles from Port Soudan and sank immediately. The captain and first officer and five of the crew are missing. The British steamer Brighton saved ten seamen all of whom were injured. Tho Brighton wirelessed the steamer Cheshire, which took off the victims for attention by her surgeon. Those rescued have been landed at Port Said
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 80, 16 March 1936, Page 7
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