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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 60, 2 June 1927, Page 13

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SHIP CITY OF KHARTOUM LYING AT PRINCE’S WHARF NEW YORK FIRE RECALLED *n January of this year the British freighter Karrow caught fire while in the New York harbour. To-day tfie City of Khartoum is lylng at Prince’s Wharf, Auckland. is the Karrow renamed and repaired. lp ? he City of Khartoum bears no m . of tier disastrous fire. She is •a interesting ship and ready to emT on trips round the world similar hose she did before the outbreak. snirVi'i aniKlry 21 a fire which had been oal. d , erins f °r some time was disin tt* e bold of the ship, and A-, b the hatches were removed the yHmes broke out with the force of a l, r » no ‘ Approximitely 1,000,000 dolof damage was done. The siv # the ship settled down into bo Ur et of mu d on the bed of the harNvas n °t the end of the Karind ».« Ca^eer ‘ rjC,he v ®ssel was raised from paired, and now has arrived since :V W York °n her first voyage namJ , Was recommissioned and reTh? , the City of Khartoum, thn wr. V wi Ssel * las J° li rneyed all round W w _ rid * Before the fire she traded N'ew 7° r ew Y’ork and India, on to tnein«I aland and Australia, then to "gland and back to New York.