EXPLOSION ON OIL-SHIP
SIXTY FEET OF HER SIDE BLOWN OUT
SIX OF CREW TRAPPED LONDON. Tuesday. Three terrific explosions blew out 60 feet of the starboard side of the oil tanker British Chemist in Grangemouth Harbour. The whole town was shaken. Fierce flames lit up the district for miles. Six members of the crew were trapped on board, but. escaped by leaping into the water Two were burned, one of whom is now in hospital. The British Chemist had arrived at Grangemouth with a cargo of crude oil yesterday morning She had discharged her cargo. The explosions are believed to have been caused by vapour ignited by a fire on a neighbouring vessel.
The British Chemist is a vessel of 6.997 tons, built at Newcastle in 1925 She is owned by the British Tanker Company, Ltd., of London. Grangemouth is a seaport on the Firth of Forth.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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147EXPLOSION ON OIL-SHIP Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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