STEAMER ON FIRE
CREW'S AWFUf, EXPERIENCE. THIRD ENGINEER INCINERATED. .(Received January 21, 9.50 a.m.) ADEN!, January 20. Further particulars are to hand of the fire on the Russian East Asiatic .Steamship Company's steamer Estonia, 4275 tons, which was abandoned on fire at sea. , The fire spread so rapidly that the officers were unable to return to the bridge to order the engineers to stop the vessel. . . , , , The third engineer was incinerate a at 'his post. The captain and ten of the crew were burnt or driven overboard. , It was impossible to launch a boat, ,ns the steamer was travelling at a Ipeed of nine knots.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 5
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105STEAMER ON FIRE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 1736, 22 January 1913, Page 5
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