GHASTLY TRAGEDY
SEA BECOMES BLAZING CAULDRON
AFTER RAMMING OF TANKER.
ELEVEN MEN BURNED TO DEATH. Including Captains of Both Vessels. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, July 28. Survivors of the French oil-tanker Sunik, 5.009 tons, which was rammed in a fog by the Swedish steamer Grangesberg, 4,575 tons, caught fire, and sank off the Eddystone rocks, described a terrible ordeal when the tanker’s 5,000 tons of benzine converted the sea into a blazing cauldron for a mile around.
The captains of both vessels and nine members of the crew of the Sunik were thrown overboard when the Sunik's boilers burst after the collision, and were burned to death as they tried to swim through the flames., A lifeboat began to burn while the scorched rowers struggled to got clear of the danger zone, and several of the survivors were badly burned.
The bows of the Grangesberg caught fire while they were locked with the Sunik, and the steamer was still burning when it reached Falmouth this morning.
The blazing Sunik lit. up the sea for miles all night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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