ORDEAL AT SEA.
OIL TANKER BLOWS UP. LONDON, July 28. Twenty-four survivors of the French oiltanker Simile which was rammed yesterday by the Swedish steadier Grangesberg off Fxldvstnne, described the terrible ordeal to-day when the tanker’s 5000 tons of benzine converted the sea into a blazing cauldron for a radius of a mile. Both captains and nine of the Siinik’s crew were thrown overboard when tbc Siinik’s boilers burst after the collision and wore burned to death as they tried to swim through the flames.
A lifeboat began to burn while seorched rowers struggled to clear the danger zone. Several survivors were badly burned. The bows of the Grangesberg were set on fire while locked with the Sunik and wore still burning when it reached Falmouth this morning.
The Sunik lit up the sea for miles all night.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 9
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138ORDEAL AT SEA. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 9
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