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Rescue From Blazing Vessel United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright SAN FRANCISCO. July 19. Captain L. E. Hawkins, master of an American oil tanker, reported by radio I'..at he had rescued 209 of the passengers and crew of the Japanese freighter Bokuyo Maru after a fire and explosion on the ship, 3750 miles east of San Francisco.
The message stated that the tanker arrived on the scene in dense fog, six hours after the final SOS and found the passengers and crew in the lifeboats. floating amid much wreckage. Fire broke out in the Bokuyo Maru’s cargo of nitrate. The fight to extinguish the outbreak was in vain, and the lifeboats got away just before the flames enveloped the vessel from stem to stern. It has not been learned whether the freighter sank.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21403, 21 July 1939, Page 9
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