LINERS ON FIRE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16674, 2 March 1925, Page 8

LINERS ON FIRE.

PASSENGERS-REMOVED. LEWES' (Delaware),. Jan. 16. The Clyde liner Mohawk, with 200 passengers on board, is reported on lire oft’ the Brandywine Light in .Delaware. Bay., The passengers put their lifebelts on in expectation of an order to take to the lifeboats. Tlie lire started in the after-hold, and spread to the after-saloon. ’Later messages indicated that it was believed to he mider control. A high gale and a driving snowstorm forced the vessel to lake refuge in the bay. Five tugs are standing by. All the passengers were taken off the Mohawk by a coastguard boat'and oeeaui tugs, and tliet Mohawk was then benched at, Lewes. LONDON, Jan. 16.--Exciting scenes were witnessed on board the Prince liner Chinese 'Prince, lying in ’No. 9 "dock at Manchester. Fire was discovered in the largest of the ship’s holds, containing a. huge number of bales of cotton, shortly after six o'clock in the morning, and, though the ’Manchester and Salford Brigades and t lie firefloat Firfeflv poured scores of thousands of gallons of water into the burning hold, it was not Until late in the afternoon that the tire was-extinguished. Blinding volumes of smoke arid intense heat made the work of the firemen most diilicult. Air was pumped into the hold to assist the firemen in overcoming the smoke, and they worked for hours liefore tlie danger was removed. The Chinese Prince had a shipment/ of Egyptian cotton, which was mostly of-superior quality, and valued at. about 890 per hale. Nearly 2000 bales were more or less destroyed.