EXPLOSIONS ON TANKER
SHIP’S BOWS BLOWN OFF VESSEL TOWED TO PORT (11 a.m.) LONDON. May 25. A series of explosions caused a fire aboard the United States tanker Newhall Hills. The blasts completely blew off the ship’s bows, representing about a quarter of her length. Four tugs towed the Newhall Hills into Sheerness early today. Her stern stood well out of the water. The Newhall Hills radioed this morning that she was blazing fiercely at the northern end of the Goodwin Sands.
The Ramsgate lifeboat put out in a dense fog, located (he vessel, and stood by til.l tugs arrived and lowed her into the Downs. Five men are believed to have been killed when an unknown fishing vessel, believed to be French or Belgian, collided with the Newhall Hills. Three members of the crew of the trawler Oceanic 11. whch sank after a collision with the tanker, John L. A. Farge, are believed to have been drowned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 4
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158EXPLOSIONS ON TANKER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 4
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