FIRE DAMAGES THE NEARLY COMPLETED LINER CORINTHIC.—Fire broke out in Britain’s biggest post-war merchant ship, the Corinthic, in her fitting-out basin at Birkenhead on January 4. Built for the New Zealand passenger-cargo service of Shaw, Savill and Albion and Co., the vessel, of 15,000 tons displacement,’ developed a 20 degree list and fire pumps had to be stopped in ease the ship capsized. Firemen from ten brigades fought the fire, which broke out in one of her holds and in her refrigerating chamber and, when the list developed, shipyard men took their lives in their hands as they worked feverishly with oxy-acetylene apparatus to cut through bulkheads in an effort to right the vessel. Picture shows: Fire-fighters tackling the badly-listing and smoking Corinthic at Birkenhead.

Wanganui Chronicle, 22 January 1947, Page 5

FIRE DAMAGES THE NEARLY COMPLETED LINER CORINTHIC.—Fire broke out in Britain’s biggest post-war merchant ship, the Corinthic, in her fitting-out basin at Birkenhead on January 4. Built for the New Zealand passenger-cargo service of Shaw, Savill and Albion and Co., the vessel, of 15,000 tons displacement,’ developed a 20 degree list and fire pumps had to be stopped in ease the ship capsized. Firemen from ten brigades fought the fire, which broke out in one of her holds and in her refrigerating chamber and, when the list developed, shipyard men took their lives in their hands as they worked feverishly with oxy-acetylene apparatus to cut through bulkheads in an effort to right the vessel. Picture shows: Fire-fighters tackling the badly-listing and smoking Corinthic at Birkenhead.