N. Y. Fireboats Fight Blaze in Freighter
Crews of two fireboats of the New York Fire Department fought, for ten hours, a fire that broke out in the hold of the Norwegian freighter, “Lista,” en route to Halifax, N. S., where it was scheduled to pick up a British convoy headed for Liverpool. Two firemen were burned when oil tanks exploded.
The boat, an oil burner, was built in 1920 and is 360 feet long. It has a crew of twenty-seven men of mixed nationalities. While there were no munitions on board, it had fifty drums of gasoline on deck, and a cargo of tobacco, paper, lumber, flour, alcohol, jute and hemp.
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