LARGE TANKER
WRECKED BY EXPLOSIONS OFF AMERICAN EAST COAST. SALVAGE OF VESSEL ORDERED. LONDON, February 18. A 19,000-ton American tanker was abandoned off the American east coast last night after a series of explosions. All 40 members of her crew escaped in lifeboats and were picked up within an hour. They said the tanker was wrecked by three explosions. Some of them thought their ship had been tor-, pedoed and others that it had struck a minefield. The ship is reported to be still afloat and her salvage has been ordered.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420219.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
91LARGE TANKER Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in