Press Photo 2 Tankers Carrying Petrol Explode In English Channel

Ships Blaze In Channel After Collision. Two tankers carrying petrol cargoes collided in the English Channel today. And as members of the crew of one of the blazing ships - including a woman - leapt into the sea, a ten-feet high wall of flame swept across the waves. Many men are believed to have died in the blazing sea. The tankers were the 7,256-ton Panamanian vessel Buccaneer, bound from Rotterdam to Dover and the 10,788-ton Swedish tanker Johannishus, carrying 41-men and a woman. The Swedish ship had time to send only a brief S.O.S. before the crew jumped into the sea, and seconds later the ship exploded in a pillar of fire. Photo Shows:- Aerial view showing the blazing Swedish tanker Johannishus today.

Photo measures 8.25 x 6 inches.

Photo is dated --0000.



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