EXPLOSION ON TRAWLER

Western Star, 8 November 1935, Page 3

EXPLOSION ON TRAWLER

300 MILES DASH FOR HELP. Details of a vessel ’ s 300-mi] e s dash to obtain medical aid were revealed when t!i t , steam trawler, Ethel Taylor, belonging to Fleetwood, Lancashire arrived in port recently. The Ethel Taylor, in charge of Skipper R. King, left Meetwood on August- 23 and steamed out- into the Atlantic to the lonely Rockalt fishing grounds I'i>h livers were being boiled on board ship when the boiler exploded, and hr-ink Earl, a deckhand, 0 f Shake! “'.-arc nnd. win. was standing near, ro-le-'i-d M-aMs all over his body < Ithi'r fishermen rushed to his help, -of he "as. so seriously injured that toe shippe'- decided lo abandon operaW"is -"aiil make 1',,,- Killvbegs. Irish Free for medical aid. Am'Mici- nmmber of ||,,- crew. l-'rank Jb-'gaii, fireman, was .-.15,, take,, ill ' Vl!l ' severe internal pains. On ar-ri\-il at Killvbegs Earl ua sent- to h os. immediately, while the- doctor devided to de Lun ashore