SHIPPING MISHAPS
RESCUE OF CREWS (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 19th December. With the light of motor car lamps focussed on a- small Belgian steamer theCharles Jose, which had drifted ashoreon the South Devon coast, the captain’s wife and nine members of the crew were rescued early yesterday morning. The captain remained aboard tlie vessel. The crew of seven of the 90 ton Isle of Man steamer Bon Blanche were brought into Swansea- by a lifeboat after the vessel struck rocks in thick weather. FIRE ON AMERICAN STEAMER RUGBY’, 19th December. The American steamship- Topatopa, of 5356 tons, carrying cotton and timber from Florida to London, arrived in the Thames with a fire aboard which had raged for 24 hours by the time the vessel readied Greenwich. Fire fighting floats were waiting, and after two hours’ strenuous work the flames were controlled.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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141SHIPPING MISHAPS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 21 December 1933, Page 7
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