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A police jeep accident at Horana Millewa killed P.C. — Mr. K.S. Banda.
The Times of Ceylon Press
This dramatic picture shows what happened when the biggest victim of recent gales, the 6,272-ton liner Venus, went aground. The liner grounded in Plymouth Sound during a 60 m.p.h. gale. Only the crew of 160 were on board. Five tugs tried to refloa...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Liner blazing in the Mersey. Britain's biggest post-war merchant ship, the 15,000-ton Corinthic caught fire in her fitting out yard of her builders, Messrs. Cammell Labrd at Birkenhead, on the River Mersey. More than 150 firemen fought the fire an...
The Times of Ceylon Press
The Nankai Maru Lashed by a Storm
A hundred and sixty persons were drowned when recently, Japan's 500-ton ferry-boat sank, lashed by a storm, on the Pacific Coast. Above a patrolman of the Maritime Safety Board fishes out a straw mat during a desperate search for survivors of the ...
The Times of Ceylon Press
Two of the survivors — A.M. Nizar and G. Piyalsena. They said they helped to rescue some of their fellow workmen.
The Times of Ceylon Press
First pictures of Treasure Liner ashore. The first pictures to be received in London of the P. & O. liner "RANPURA" ashore off Gibraltar. Bearing back to China the art treasures worth €10,000,000, the 17,000 ton vessel went ashore in a fierce gale...
The Times of Ceylon Press
