SEVENTEEN DEAD IN FIRE ON SHIP
Received Friday, 10.30 a.m. RIO DE JANIERO, Aug. 1. The Navy Minister has announced that a boiler exulosion resulting from the lire destroyed the firsi class accommodation of the Duque de Caxias. Only the alertness of the captain and crew had averted the total loss of the vessel. The casualties included seventeen dead and an unknown number injured. The Duque de Caxias (4556 tons) was Brazil's largest transport. She caught fire off shore after leaving Rio de Janiero the previous day for Naples, carrying 1060 passengers, and with a crew of 300, who were transferred to a British cargo ship.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 August 1946, Page 5
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