ENVELOPED IN FLAMES
LOSS OF JAPANESE SHIP SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. Captain L. E. Hawkins, master of the American tanker, reported by radio that he had rescued 209 passengers and crew of the Bokuyo Maru. The message stated that the tanker arrived at the scene in a dense fog six hours after the final 5.0.5., and found the passengers and crew in lifeboats amid much wreckage. The fire broke out in the Bokuyo Maru’s nitrate cargo. The fight to extinguish the outbreak was in vain, and the lifeboats got away just before the flames enveloped the vessel from stem to stern.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23866, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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