FLOOD OF PETROL.
TANKER WRECKED. LONDON, Wednesday. There was a sensation at Liverpool when the Anglo-American Oil Company’s tanker Seminole grounded in tlieyMersey and broke her back, releasing eight thousand tons of petrol which is drifting towards Liverpool with the current. The danger of fire was so great that all the police were rushed to the landing stages to prevent smoking and striking of matches aboard the ferry boats. The Fire Brigade laid out thousands of yards of hose and hydrants ready for any emergency along the seven miles of dock quays.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 December 1927, Page 5
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