MISHAPS AT SEA
TWO VESSELS GO ASHORE.
FIRE ON AMERICAN SHIP.
(Perl. British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, December 19
With the light of motor car lamps focussed on the small Belgian steamer, Charles Jose, which had dri.ted ashore on the south Devon coast, the captain’s wife and nine members of. the crew were rescued early ye.-terluy. morning. The captain vem i hod aba trd the res sel.
The crew, o'f seven of the 90-ton Isle of Man steamer ‘Ben Blanche .wqre brought into Swansea by a lifeboat after the vessel stritek rocks in thick weathet. - * . ■ The American steamship Topatcpa, of 5356 tons, carrying cotton and timber from Florida to London arrived at the Thames with a fire aboard, which had raged for 24 hours. By the time the vesesl reached Greenwich, firefighting floats were waiting. After tw6 hours Strenuous work th e flames' were controlled.' Tj 5 ' t.'
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 December 1933, Page 5
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