DESTROYED BY FIRE
BRITISH FLYING-BOAT REFUELLING ACCIDENT LONDON, June l!> The flying-boat Connemara was being refuelled from a barge at Hythe when an explosion occurred which set fire to the barge. Owing to the heat and flames it was impossible to uncouple the flying-boat from the barge, and in a few minutes
it also was on fire and was burnt out. One man is missing.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23378, 21 June 1939, Page 13
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