BRITISH MOTOR-VESSEL ON FIRE
LINER NIAGARA RESCUES CREW SEAMAN PERISHES IN FLAMES THE Royal Mail steamer Niagara has picked up the crew of a burning vessel, which is threatened with destruction. By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright.
Reed. 1 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Tues. fpHE British motor-vessel Doris Crane, bound from Honolulu to San Francisco, is afire and is probably facing
destruction, according to a wireless from the liner Niagara, which rescued 12 _of the crew, 340 miles north of Honolulu.
One seaman perished in the flames. The Doris Crane was carrying copra. The owners are Whiteman and Crane. Captain H. C. Davidson was in command.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 233, 21 December 1927, Page 1
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