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The Blazing Liner 'Monarch of Bermuda'
Several men were injured today when the 22,424-ton luxury liner "MONARCH OF BERMUDA" was swept by fire in dock at Hebburn-on-Tyne. The liner, which was in dock for refitting, was a troop transport during the war. KEYSTONE PHOTO SHOWS:- Aerial view...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Lifeboat wrecked as 49 die. Rescue crew lost battling way to crippled cargo vessel. Twenty bodies of the 49 lost in the worst double sea tragedy for many years have now been recovered. Forty one of those lost belonged to the 7,219 ton Samtampa, an...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Greek Trans-Atlantic Liner 'Bretagne'
With smoke belching from her mid-section, the Greek trans-Atlantic liner, 'Bretagne', being nosed out of the Nioarchos shipyards at Skaramanga, 20 miles south of Athens, after a fire had raged out of control aboard the vessel. Three persons were s...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Heavy List of the Flying Enterprise
Dramatic radio flashes from the U.S. destroyer, John W. Weeks, gave the first detailed account of the lone fight of the 37-year-old Capt. Kurt Carlsen - against the gale-whipped Atlantic, in his battered, listing ship, "Flying Enterprise". The cap...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Lifeboat, Drawing alongside the Merchantman
While flying 150 miles from land the captain of an R.A.F Sunderland flying boat (co-operating with Coastal Command of the R.A.F) saw a white speck on the water. He found it was a small lifeboat with a white jib hoisted and containing twenty men. H...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Nyland and the E. Kirby Smith
The sharp prow of the Swedish freighter SS Nyland almost bisected the Liberty ship E. Kirby Smith after they collided in the early hours of the morning near Norfolk, Virginia. The E. Kirby Smith was anchored when the Nyland plowed into it. No one ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Psychological Suspence Story ''Faces In The Dark''
The Times of Ceylon Press
Above: The Saravanamuttu family pictured yesterday: Muraley (20), Shanthi (18), Manjula (13) and Sudharshan (8) with their widowed mother.
The Times of Ceylon Press