SHIP FIRE EPIC.
(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October 24. Although the decks of the steamer Falcon, whose match cargo caused a spectacular fire of! North. Foreland, at the week-end. were buckling, and the whole ship was filled with choking smoke, the engineers and stokers stuck grimly to their jobs of driving the ship into the teeth of a gale in an effort to beach her before she was gutted. Among the crew was Robert Edlin, an ex-colonel of the Welsh Fusiliers, who took to the sea following financial losses. The populations of five Kent resorts watched the fire all night. The Falcon, still burning, refloated, and drifted out to sea at dawn. She is now beached at Deal (Kent).
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17996, 5 November 1926, Page 12
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120SHIP FIRE EPIC. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17996, 5 November 1926, Page 12
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