Inferno Off The Cornish Coast
LONDON, July 30. 'Hie lighthouse steamer Satellite is warning shipping from a n ilc-widc couldron off the Corn- [ ish coast. !!
Sixty-loot flames are still ; hooting up from the surface, where the French ail tanker Sunik sank after a collision three | days ago in 42 fathoms.
A stream of petrol is coming to the surface, where it L igniting. Dense smoke still envelops, i the area, and therefore urgent ware ngs ave being broadcast to | shipping to avoid the vast inferno.
The Satellite’s boat, invesli- '■ gating, ran Into boiling water, and was forced back by the flames.
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Northern Advocate, 31 July 1939, Page 7
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