OIL-TANKER ON FIRE.—For 52 hours the crew of the British tanker Valverda fought a fire which broke out in the engine-room and swept aft rapidly. A desperate effort was made to keep the flames from reaching the cargo of 13,250 tons of oil, and it was only the heavy seas breaking over the vessel that prevented the oil from catching fire. The British cruiser H.M.S. Frobisher (on left) answered the SOS call of the Valverda, and eventually towed the tanker to Bermuda.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1935, Page 11
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82OIL-TANKER ON FIRE.—For 52 hours the crew of the British tanker Valverda fought a fire which broke out in the engine-room and swept aft rapidly. A desperate effort was made to keep the flames from reaching the cargo of 13,250 tons of oil, and it was only the heavy seas breaking over the vessel that prevented the oil from catching fire. The British cruiser H.M.S. Frobisher (on left) answered the SOS call of the Valverda, and eventually towed the tanker to Bermuda. Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1935, Page 11
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