FIRE IN SHIP’S HOLD GIVES THE BRIGADE TROUBLESOME TIME.
By Telegraph.-—Press Assn.— Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 21, 10.30 a.m.) AMSTERDAM. June 20. The steamer Essen, bound from Australia to Hamburg, arrived at Amsterdam with a fire burning in No. 3 hold. After a long struggle the brigade managed to extinguish the blaze. It is surmised that the fire ’started in the copra. Openings were cut in the side of the vessel to allow the passage of water, but a heavy list prevented flooding the hold.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18187, 21 June 1927, Page 1
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