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150 firemen fight blaze in Brazil's biggest post-war cargo liner: "CORINTHIC" saved after dangerous list. Britain's biggest post-war merchant ship— the 15,000 tons cargo line "Corinthic" — caught fire in her fitting-out basin at Camell-Laird's shi...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Off Land's Ends: Listing worse than ever before the Flying Enterprise drifts helplessly off Land's End, with the U.S. destroyer Willard Keith in attendance. The vessel, with gallant captain Carlsen, master, and mate Kenneth Dancy of the tug Turmoi...
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 2.055-ton Norwegian steamer, Mildrid, blazing furiously off Harwich—over 20 hours after she caught fire and after an all-day "tug-o-war" by British and French ships to claim her as a prize. The battle to salvage the Mildrid began almost as soo...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Smashed Timbers and Cradles on the Slipway
Aircraft carrier launches itself. This striking photograph was taken after the aircraft carrier "FORMIDABLE" broke away half an hour before LADY WOOD, wife of the air minister was to launch her. One woman was killed and 20 injured by the hurdling ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Danube steamer cut in half. Seven missing. The steamer WIEN of the Austrian Danube Navigation Company collided yesterday afternoon with a pillar of the Reichsbridge, the main bridge connecting Vienna with the suburbs on the left bank of the Danube...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Survivors from the City of Victoria
It's midnight—and for them it's the end of a nightmare. Survivors from the City of Victoria clutching their precious belongings as they stepped into the launch which brought them to Ceylon, from where they star life all over again.
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Tamil descent crew of the "Velasiks" ship, which was carrying 540-tons of Bombay onions from Nagapattinam region in India to Sri Lanka, managed to save their lives and stayed at the Moratuwa police station.
The Times of Ceylon Press
Hauling One of the Cattle from the River
War-bride ship collide with cattle steamer in Mersey — cattle flounder in river. Three hours after the war-bride ship "Empire Brent" (13,595 tons) had been in collision with the cattle steamer "Stormont" (1,031 tons), which capsized, cattle and ho...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Left to right: (1) Piyadasa, the 21-year-old ferryman, (2) Hendrick Singho with his son — the only surviving child of his family. Two of his daughters were drowned. Two other daughters had died of illness recently. Note the boil on the boy's back ...
The Times of Ceylon Press