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Hunt Bodies in Ship Collision Spark Heroism and Terror
Eyewitness accounts describe a fiery collision between the Texaco Massachusetts and the Alva Cape off Newark Bay. Survivors tell how men aided each other despite flames from naphtha leaking from the 546 foot tanker. Coast Guard crews rescued several, while eight of the Esso Vermont’s nine crew members were reported missing.
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Alva Cape
Flaes
Texaco Massachusetts
AP Wirectate
Coast Guard
Alfonso Colon
Ficeyman
Trans
Alvalie
Cape
Vermont
Esco Vermont
Bayonne
N. J
Richard F. Pinder
Clarksboro
Texaco
Massachusetts
Newark
Pinder
Alva
New York
Esso
Shee
Colon
Oman
van Kull
Newark Bay