BLAZING OIL ON SEA
WARNING TO SHIPPING INFERNO OFF CORNWALL (Reed. July 31, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The lighthouse steamer Satellite was to-day warning shipping from a mile-wide cauldron off the Cornish coast where GOft. flames were still shooting up from the surface where, (10 hours previously, the French oil ;anker Sunik, with a cargo of 5000 tons of benzine, caught fire and sank in 42 fathoms of water, after being rammed in a fog by the Swedish steamer Grangesberg. A stream of oil has been coming to the surface, where it is ignited. Dense fog still envelops the area and therefore urgent warnings have been broadcast to shipping to avoid the vast inferno.
The Satellite’s boats, which were investigating, ran into boiling water and were forced back by the flames.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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132BLAZING OIL ON SEA Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20003, 31 July 1939, Page 5
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