STEAMER FIRE
A GRAPHIC STORY
(Australian Press Association)
(Received this uav at 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 23.
Unexpectedly, the British cargo steamer Brookwood called into Port Kembla to replenish her hunkers. The officers told a graphic story of a fire which broke out whilst the vessel \vas in the Indian Ocean, during the run to Mauritius and fifty tons of coke was nrown overboard with hare hands, to keep the flames and poison gasses in check.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1930, Page 5
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76STEAMER FIRE Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1930, Page 5
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