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ITALIAN TRAMP VESSEL SINKS SEVEN PEOPLE MISSING LONDON, March 16. (Received March 10, at 5.5 pan.) The Times Cairo correspondent says an Italian tramp steamer, the Marchigiano, laden with drums of benzine for the Italian armies, from Genoa for Assab, exploded without warning 125 miles from Port Sudan and sank immediately. The captain, the first officer, and five of the crew are missing. The British steamer Brighton saved 10 seamen, all injured. The Brighton wirelessed to the steamer Cheshire, which took off the victims for attention. Her surgeon, two doctors, and. those rescued were landed at Port Said.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22832, 17 March 1936, Page 9
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