The Captain insisted the fire could not have started in the engine room, because it was fireproof, and blamed combustible cargo stored below.

They criticized the state steamboat inspectors for ignonng gross safety violations, and the dockworkers for loading combustible cargo next to a heat source.

A surge of flaming oil swamped the surrounding waterfront structures and launched a chain reaction of explosions from combustible cargoes sitting on the docks.

When I got to Number 14 mast I found that she had been shifted to make room for a big Russian freighter with a combustible cargo which had to be taken off in a hurry.