... Almost Radar MINISTRY REPORTS rpHE tragic shipping casualties in the early months of this year, after a year in which losses United Kingdom merchant shipping were the lowest on record, emphasized the importance continuing to pursue all measures to further ...

... IN SHIP PROBE Wear-Built Vessel the inquiry into the loss of the Wearbuilt British steamer Indian Enterprise (7,300 tons) opened in London to-day Mr Stanley Pitts, a Treasury solicitor, said: A preliminary inquiry into this casualty has not suggested ...

... REDS THROWN BACK llt Was War Casualty HOUSE ON THE HILL.— This house at the top of Eston Grose, Newcastle Road, Sunderland, uncompleted for 12 years, is to be demolished soon. Cargo Liner is Order No. 45 The 45th order to be placed on the Wear was announced ...

... SHIP SAFE The French steamer Plcardle (4,000 tons) which struck mine north the Friesian Isles during the night has been taken In tow by the German tug Seefalke to the German isle of Borkum. the tug owners said to-dav. The explosion disabled her but no ...

... arrangements for bringing in and berthing a ship can now be made with confidence when the ship is at perhaps some three-quarters an hour's steaming distance. Previously during thick weather the arrival of a ship could not be relied upon until she was actually ...

... WARSHIP ATTACKED AND FOLLOWED SHIP rifHE 967-lon British freighter Inchkilda was fired on by an unidentified warship on Tuesday night, not a shore battery as earlier reported, Mr H. P. Pearson, Hong-Kong manager of the ship's agents, said to-day. He had ...

... POSITIONS OF SHIPS IN THE PORT OF SUNDERLAND The First of River: BURNHOPE irepgi. Greenwell’s No 1 Dock; ANDWI. Dry Dock; LEVENWOOD irepgi. Oreenwell’s Quay; SIR WILLIAM WALKER ...

... 122 SHIPS LOST IN 3 MONTHS A TOTAL 122 merchant ships of more than 100 tons Soss and amounting to 270,853 ns were lost, broken up or condemned throughout the world during the quarter ended March 31. 1950, states Lloyd's Register of Shipping. Of these ...

... LINER SAVES BLAZING SHIP PASSENGERS No Casualties Reported AILING through dense fog by radar, the 11,650- ton Swedish-American liner Stockholm rescued 108 passengers from a blazing Danish mailboat, the Kronprms Olav, seven miles off the Swedish coast ...

... BRIDGE FALLS, HITS SHIP. BLOCKS SUEZ STEEL railway bridge crashet’. into the Suez Canal to-day, causing severe damage to the 10,892-ton Liberian tanker World Peace, an ! blocking the Canal for at least eight days. There were no casualties. The accident, the ...

... 3 SHIPS RADIO FOR AID IN NORTH SEA THREE ships In difficulties In the North Sea this morning and radioed for assistance The Swedish steamer Muskoe (3.807 tons) sent out a call to Middlesbrough for tugs and reported that she is towing the Swedish steamer ...

... SHIP STARTS NEW CAREER AT 71 71 years of age, a 1.215- ton cargo steamer, launched on Wearside in June, 1883. is to begin a new career with a Costa Rican company. She the Torsten, the first ship to be owned the Cairn Line, of Newcastle. But when she was ...