MARCONI’S YACHT AFIRE
WIRELESS. GENIUS FIGHTS BLAZE, VALUABLE APPARATUS SAVED. By Telegraph:—Br.ess Assn.—Copyright. ' Rome, August 11. A fire occurred on. the Marchese Marconi’s yacht. Electra in CivitanVecchia harbour. The outbreak was dud- to a shortrcircuit while Marconi was sending a wireless message to London. Marconi superintended the fire operations and. saved the yacht and ’much valuable • apparatus,- though the ’ wireless equipment was destroyed. " Thera was great excitement on shore when tha vessel was-seen enveloped in smoke."-' 1
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 August 1930, Page 6
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