COALS OF FIRE
, • , r'ib-nn&i ■'s . r .!liS i>7 EXPLOSION ON GERMAN CTEAMEtv! BRITISH TRAWLER TO THE'?Jp|f||i Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* LONDON, January 16. (Received Jan. 17, at ,6.5 p.m.) The German steamer Vesta caught, fir# Off Lowestoft. A trawler took off 10 of the creWj'.buß ■ 10 others and the mate’s wife Vere-ipat. u . The Vesta was carrying-a cargo 6fbbnarili which shifted during the gale, and..i(ia knocking together of the barrels .-.capeed an explosion. '-^bcViT The Crew were in a desperate plight, at the flames spread. Some of them were forced overboard by the burning’ deck, and all the boats were burnt, hut ' the trawler’s crew, with conspicuous courage, came alongside and saved the real.—A, and N.Z. Cable. * ‘ .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18456, 18 January 1922, Page 5
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116COALS OF FIRE Otago Daily Times, Issue 18456, 18 January 1922, Page 5
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