DISASTER AVERTED IN RENOWN FIRE
PETTY-OFFICER’S BRAVERY ISOLATED OUTBREAK By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Heed. 11 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. The “Daily News’* Port Louis correspondent says that one of the few facts allowed to penetrate the veil of discretion thrown over the Renown’s Are discloses that Petty-Offieer Jeffries was chiefly instrumental in preventing disaster, and suggests that the full story is worthy of publication. The fire started at lunch time while the boilers were being replenished. The fuel overflowed and rose to a depth of nine feet in the boiler-room, after which it took fire, the heat and fumes speedily suffocating the stokers, who were bravely fighting to overcome the flames. They were forced to retreat and the position seemed almost hopeless, and the whole ship’s company were piped to the upper deck. Jeffries, realising the danger, remained at his post and succeeded in turning off the cocks and closing the boiler-room door, with the result that the fire was isolated, and after a long fight, extinguished. Jeffries was badly burned, but is now recovering.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 17
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175DISASTER AVERTED IN RENOWN FIRE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 17
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