Cement Lorry
The cement lorry that smashed against a tree in Sembatta at the Halawatha-Puttalam road caused the deaths of three people. The lorry faced this accident while transporting cement from the Puttalam cement factory to Colombo.
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The Gaping Hole in Prospector's Side
Merchant vessel which collided with cruise liner towed into Dover.. 13-06-53.
The British Merchant ship PROSPECTOR which collided with the P. and O. Cruise Liner CHUSAN off Dover last night - was towed into Dover Harbour this morning.. The "Prospe...
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'Erling Jarl'
Fourteen people lost their loves in the fire which broke out at Bode, Northern Norway — aboard the Norwegian liner "Erling Jarl". Hundreds of people on the quayside watched as the 300 passengers came ashore from the burning liner — not knowing tha...
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Caltex Delft crash
The stem of the CALTEX DELFT after the tanker crashed into the North Pier and an arrow indicating the long crack on the concrete quay close to where the tanker crashed.
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The Burning Tanker 'Johannishus'
Twenty-two men and one woman — wife of the engineer were rescued and nineteen were missing from the burning Swedish tanker "Johannishus", which caught fire after a collision with the Panamanian freighter "Buccaneer", about 20 miles off Margate, so...
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