A SHIP ON FIRE.
SUNK TO PREVENT A CATASTROPHE. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. Singapore, December 18. The Bucknall Bros ' oilship-Kaloma, bound from America to China with a load of refined oil, put into P" apore on fire. She had 80,000 < es of oil aboard, and it was feared that a terrific explosion, endangering the other shipping of the port, would follow. The vessel was therefore hurriedly moved out of the fairway, and within range of the forts. The crew left her in tho boats, and the big guns of the fort then opened fire on the burning steamer, sinking her before the fire had extended to the oil.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13938, 21 December 1908, Page 7
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