EIGHT SHIPS BURNED: TEN SAILORS KILLED
COOK’S CARELESSNESS THREW EMBERS ON PETROL United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright Reed. 10.20 a.m. ATHENS, Tuesday. Ten sailors were incinerated and several injured when seven sailing vessels and a steamer were destroyed as the result of the carelessness of a ship’s cook, who threw burning embers on to petroleum which was floating oil the water in Piraeus Harbour, near the storage tanks of the Standard Oil Company. The flames spread quickly, catching a sailer which was taking in fuel. In a few minutes seven other vessels and a small boat loaded with petroleum were ablaze. The flames were mastered before they reached the shore where the oil tanks are situated.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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114EIGHT SHIPS BURNED: TEN SAILORS KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1073, 10 September 1930, Page 9
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