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In the early morning hours of September 6, 1914 while steaming off Sulphur Island when the forward watch discovered she was on fire. The captain had the yawl readied to abandon her then directed the crew in fighting the flames only to have to abandon ship. He later stated that “The flames spread with amazing rapidity and it seemed no time before the entire ship was afire.
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