Summed Up

Newspaper

The Daily News

Issue Date

9 October 1925

Location

Perth, Western Australia

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1

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An explosion took place in the cargo of the Roman Star off Ushant, killing one fireman and wounding two others.

The Roman Star was bound for England from South Africa after trouble with the strikers, and had a record cargo of oranges aboard. It is presumed the explosion was due to a detonator in the coal.

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7 October 1925

One person dies and two more are severely scalded in an explosion in the stokehold of the S.S. Roman Star, off Ushant, France. Ordered by his employer, Blue Star Line, to attend to the ship at the earliest possible moment, Edward Allan Thomson charters a two-engined plane to fly from Croydon Air Port to Le Bourget for Paris and catches a night-train onward to Brest, where the ship has temporarily docked. Sources: 2