Fire On Copra Ship
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|7 N route from Sydney to London, via Pacific Islands ports, the motor ship Inverbank was threatened by a fire in her copra cargo early in December.
A message from Suva (Fiji) on Decem ber 4 reported that the vessel was anchored in five fathoms off Pegimotu Island, near Nukualofa, Tonga, and that the blaze was in the lower section of the No. 4 hold. The following day advice was received that the fire had been blan keted with steam and was then under control.