INSURANCE ON CORINTHIC
Received M'onday-, 7 p.m: LONDON, Jan. 5. The Daily Telegraph says- the Gorin t hic, in which fire broke out yesterday, is still insured under ship-building rislt policies for £1,100,000 with idoyd.'s and marine insurancG- companies. Jrlei owners, the S'liaw, SaviJl and Albion Gompanv, had not yet taken deiivery.. It will be two or three days before the Shaw Savill and Albiori Line will know how the effects- of the fire will delay the completion of the Corinthic and the ship 's first voyage lo the Pacific says Reuters, but an. inspect.ion today shows how- effectively the fircmen and volunteers prevented the blaze from be voming a disasl-er. The No. 5 . liold/ which at the height of tlie fire was a blazing inferno, was gutted,. but the onlv damage to' the adjacent hokls was where the insulation was stripped off tlie white-liot bulkheads. The cause of tlie fire is believed to ha-ve been a short-eircuit ia the tempoi'ary wiring for lamps. Heafc ignited. a tarpaulin hold cover., whicli dropped on loose sliavings and cork insulation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 7 January 1947, Page 5
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