MOTOR-SHIP BURNED.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1872, 4 October 1913, Page 5

MOTOR-SHIP BURNED.

$ • RESCUE OP SIXTY PASSENGERS.' EXPLOSION IN NARROW LOCH . j PASS. ! A party of workmen had an exoiting-' 5 expcnouco in the motor-ship Scout, j ' which was destroyed by fire in Loch Lsven, Argyllshire, on August 19. Tho boat, wliich was a. twin-screw vessel oi I 82 tons, belonged to Messrs. Mae- . Uravne, of Glasgow, and carried tliol mails between Kintallen, on Lochn Linnho, and Kinlochloven, on LochJ Levon. 1 After leaving Kintallen early m thaj 1 morning tho boat called at Bnllachulish,! i near tho mouth of Loch Levon, and took) , on board as passengers for Kinloch-j ' levon a gang of sixty men who are cnM - ployed in aluminium works there. Somoij distanca beyond Ballaohulish, a point' called tho "narrows" is readied, where' ■ tho width of tho loch is hardly sulE-' cient to allow of two steamers passing ono another. There aro rocky mounI tains on either side, and a fierce tidal > current causes tho narrow 'stream ofi i water between to leap and foam. i It was while the motor-ship was; > churning its way through theso waters that a flaro Bliot up from tho hold. Al quantity of oil used in the propulsion.' of tho vessel had, it is thought,, leaked! from tho engine-room, and the suddoiv * heeling of tho boat bad caused tho fiifif . I to come in contact with some steam 1 pipes and bccome ignited. Captain Cameron immediately ordered; . tho small boats to'bp lowered, and all. on board were quickly rowed ashore. .A) few minutes later there, was a great ex-ri ; plosion, which startled tho crofters ats ' work on their farms. Tho vessel be-j ; camo 'a roaring furnace, and in tlitf , ' courso of a few hours was burned out.