LIVERPOOL SENSATION
tANKER BREAKS HER BACK. MERSEY A SEA OF PETROL. fPresi- Association—By Folegraph—Copyngnt ) LONDON, December 14. (Received Dec. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) There was a sensation at Liverpool when the Anglo-American Oil Company tanker Seminole grounded in the Mersey and broke her back, releasing 8000 tons ot petrol, which is drifting towards Liverpool with the current The danger of fires is so great that all the police rushed to the landing stages to prevent smoking and the striking of matches aboard the ferry boats. The fire brigade laid out 1000yds of hose and hydrants ready tor any emergency amon" the seven miles of dock quays, ihe troopship California, with 1200 troops aboard, is being towed out of danger. A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20282, 15 December 1927, Page 11
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