Keeping fire fighters at bay with its terrific heat, a fire which destroyed the Canadian Pacific Railway’s docks, Vancouver, on July 27, did damage amounting to £875,000. The Empress of Russia, loading cargo at the docks, was saved by tugs pulling her into the stream.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1938, Page 6
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45Keeping fire fighters at bay with its terrific heat, a fire which destroyed the Canadian Pacific Railway’s docks, Vancouver, on July 27, did damage amounting to £875,000. The Empress of Russia, loading cargo at the docks, was saved by tugs pulling her into the stream. Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1938, Page 6
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