LINER RAMS TANKER
COLLISION IN FOG
RESCUE OF CREW
NEW YORK. March 6.
The Dollar Line, steamer, President Coolidgc, with 678 passengers aboard, rammed the oil tanker Frank Buck in a dense log.
The President Coolidgc rescued the crew of 36 of the Frank Buck, which immediately began to sink. The vessels drifted a mile before they broke apart. Tiie liner returned to port with her bow stove in above the waterline.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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72LINER RAMS TANKER Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19267, 8 March 1937, Page 5
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