A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT
LONDON, December 12.
During the trials of H.M.S. Orion's electrical equipment at Portsmouth the over-heating of the oil tank created an inflammable vapour, which, igniting, burst the drum. The burning oil escaped, transforming the dynamo room into a sheet of flame. '
Three Admiralty«ofncials, four officers, and 13 others were severely burned, 14 of them having to go to the hospital.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3014, 20 December 1911, Page 27
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63A REMARKABLE ACCIDENT Otago Witness, Issue 3014, 20 December 1911, Page 27
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