FREIGHTER AFIRE
A NARROW ESCAPE
(Received this day at 12 noon)
MELBOURNE, February 18
The Norwegian freighter Toranger, which arrived here with a cargo of eight thousand tons of English coal, had a narrow escape from disaster owing to a lire in the bunkers, in which seventeen hundred tons ot coal was placed at Durham. All hands not actually needed for the management of the ship were engaged i'or many hours in fighting the outbreak which was overcome after two hundred tons of eoa! had been brought on deck from the bunkers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1930, Page 5
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92FREIGHTER AFIRE Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1930, Page 5
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