FIRE AT PORTSMOUTH
DAMAGE SEVERAL HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright
LONDON, December 21. A hug© semaphore tower surrounding a block of stores at Portsmouth Dockyard has been burned. The fire did damage estimated at several hundred thousand pounds. 1 Oils and naval stores were destroyed in large quantities. Tho battleship Queen Mary was threatened but was towed to safety. The rigging house, sail loft, and the staff-captains’ offices were burned. A large force of naval men prevented the fire spreading to tho oil tanks. Many interesting documents of Lord Nelson’s time and beyond were destroyed. TWO SIGNALMEN PERISH. LONDON, December 21. Two of the signalmen of tho semaphore tower perished.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8611, 23 December 1913, Page 5
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