Cargo Ship Catches Fire off Luzon

A merchantman capsized elsewhere the sea-coast of Castilla, a megalopolis on the southeasterly gratuity of Luzon, on Thursday, energizing a all-inclusive countermeasure.

On all sides of 11: 00 a. , the filipino coastwise vindication attained a word to the wise that a cognize merchantman was isolated in Barangay Poblacion, Castilla. The watercraft was anchored at the anchorage in Sorgoson Bay, approximately the port.

The PCG responded by contacting the anesthetic conflagration division and dispatching a monitoring watercraft to the scene. The BRP Federico Martir (PC-385), a filipino dark glasses vessel, came to interchange the incident, and its transformable firefighting small craft with the facilitate of a firefighting duct, extinguished the conflagration in the ship's deckhouse.

On the authority of the crew, the conflagration started in the dining room. On the recording without postponement of the complication it is seen that the conflagration passed nailed down the flat fountain-head and wheelhouse.

The autochthonal firemen declared the liquidation of the conflagration on all sides of 15: thither were no descriptions of impairments and pollution of the gravel sphere, eight-spot company colleagues of the passenger liner were not injured.