VAST INFERNO.
FLAMES FROM SUNKEN TANKER. LONDON, Jiilv 30. The lighthouse steamer Satellite _ is warning shipping from a mile-wide cauldron off the Cornish coast, where 60ft flames are still shooting up from the surface where the French oiltanker Sunik sank 60. hours previously in 42 fathoms. A stream of oil is coming to the surface, where it has ignited.
A dense fog still envelops the area, because of which urgent warnings have keen broadcast to shipping to avoid the vast inferno. The Satellite’s boats, when investigating, ran into the boiling water and were forced back by the flames.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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98VAST INFERNO. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 205, 31 July 1939, Page 9
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