A TRAGIC END TO THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF A LUXURIOUS FRENCH PASSENGER SHIP. The 17,000-ton French motor-liner Georges Philippar listing heavily to port with huge clouds of smoke rolling out of her-blazing hull. This picture was secured eight hours after the liner caught fire in the Gulf of Aden. The ship was abandoned and sank three days later. Of the 767 people on board the Georges Philippar over 80 lost their lives.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 6
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72A TRAGIC END TO THE MAIDEN VOYAGE OF A LUXURIOUS FRENCH PASSENGER SHIP. The 17,000-ton French motor-liner Georges Philippar listing heavily to port with huge clouds of smoke rolling out of her-blazing hull. This picture was secured eight hours after the liner caught fire in the Gulf of Aden. The ship was abandoned and sank three days later. Of the 767 people on board the Georges Philippar over 80 lost their lives. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21233, 13 July 1932, Page 6
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