ORDEAL OF FIRE
DAMAGE TO ORMONDE EVIDENCE IN SALOON SYDNEY,, Aug. 25. With her forward saloon torn- and buckled the liner Ormonde, which reached Sydney to-day after having been delayed in Twofold Bay owing to an outbreak of fire in one of her holds, provided grim evidence of the ordeal through which she had passed. The_hold where the fire occurred was extensively damaged. . ~. Seaman J. McYeagb is at present in the ship's hospital recovering from the effects of smoke and fumes.
A majority of the 320 passengers, were women and children and they, behaved splendidly, although there were times when some showed signs of .hysteria, notably when everybody was ordered to the boat stations and life belts "were donned. ■■••-• * ~..■-.
A Victorian passenger, Mi\ Lancelot Gaunt, stated :. At one.stage we thought the ship was doomed."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19130, 26 September 1936, Page 5
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