LINER RAMS TANKER
CREW RESCUED FROM SINKING VESSEL (Received March 7, 6.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 6. The Dollar Line vessel President Coolidge, with 678 passengers on board, rammed the oil tanker Frank Buck in dense fog. The President Coolidge rescued the crew of 36 and the Frank Buck immediately began to sink. The vessels drifted a mile before they broke apart. The liner returned to port with her bow stove in above the waterline.
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Southland Times, Issue 23142, 8 March 1937, Page 7
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75LINER RAMS TANKER Southland Times, Issue 23142, 8 March 1937, Page 7
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