VESSEL ABANDONED
JAMMED IN ICE. CARGO CATCHES FIRE. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, February 18. The Riga correspondent of The Times states that the crew of the German Steamer Leandra suffered from extreme temperature when the vessel was jammed in the ice near Demesnes, while en route from Riga to Bremen, with her cargo of benzine and kerosene on fire. The flames towered 300 feet, defying the approach of the ice-breakers, which responded to the S.O.S. The crew of 18 after the fourth explosion abandoned ship and trudged barefoot for four hours across the ice, reaching the shore with frozen hands and feet. —Times Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21265, 20 February 1931, Page 9
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