COLLISION IN FOG
LARGE AMERICAN LINER OIL TANKER BADLY DAMAGED (.Received March 7, 7 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 The Dollar liner President Coolidge, with 678 passengers on board, rammed the oil tanker Frank H. Buck in a dense fog to-day. The President Coolidge rescued the crew of 36 of the oil tanker, which immediately began to sink. The vessels drifted a mile before they broke apart. The liner returned to San Francisco with her port bow stove in above the water-line. The President Coolidge, a twin-screw oi! fuel vessel of 21,936 tons, was built in 1931 at Newport News. The Frank H. Buck, of 6077 tons, was built in 1914 at Sail Francisco and is owned by the Associated Oil Company.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22671, 8 March 1937, Page 11
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