EXPLOSION SHAKES SHIP
EXCITEMENT AT SYDNEY WATERFRONT BOILER ROOM WRECKED SYDNEY, Tuesday. There was a terrific explosion on board the American steamer Galveston at the Woolloomooloo wharf today. It shook the vessel from stem to stern. A greaser who was near by was badly burned. Men on the wharves thought the vessel would sink. A small boiler on the upper deck backfired, and a great sheet of flame shot up. The wreckage from the boiler room fell on the roofs of houses. There was the greatest excitement in the neighbourhood for many minutes. The Galveston is an oil fuel burning vessel of 6,171 tons, built In 1921 by the Doullut and Williams Shipbuilding Company at New Orleans, and owned by the United States Shipping Board.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 699, 26 June 1929, Page 11
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