ON FIRE AT SEA
STEAMER
IN PERH3:
BURNING COKE THROWN OVERBOARD
(Keceivcd 23rd September, 10 iUn.J SYDNEY, Thin Day. Unexpectedly the British cargo ' steamer Brookwood called at Pot* Kembla to replenish her bunkers. The officers told a graphic story of » fire which broke out whilst the -vessel was in the Indian Ocean, during ths run to Mauritius.- Fifty tons of cok» _ wore thrown overboard with' the men* bare hands to keep the flames aad dangerous poison gases in check.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 73, 23 September 1930, Page 9
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79ON FIRE AT SEA Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 73, 23 September 1930, Page 9
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