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PUBLISHED BY THE HARTFORD STEAM BOILER INSPECTION AND INSURANCE COMPANY,<br />

New Skkiks — Vol. XV. HARTFORD, CONN., JULY, 1894. No. T.<br />

A Boiler Explosion on a Tug* Boat.<br />

We present, herewith, some particulars of the boiler explosion on the steam tug<br />

Rambler, which occurred recently while the boat was tied up at Pocket Dock, New<br />

Haven, Conn. An hour previous to the explosion the Humbler had towed a four-masted<br />

schooner down the bay, aud she had returned to the dock to meet some friends of Cap-<br />

Fig. 1.<br />

—<br />

<strong>The</strong> "Rambler" after the Explosion.<br />

tain Hewitt, who were to go down the bay on a pleasure excursion. Owing to some<br />

very fortunate miscalculation the expected party missed a train at Hartford, and were<br />

obliged to wait over until after the explosion. Except for this incident they would<br />

have been on the boat at the time the boiler blew up, and would undoubtedly have been<br />

killed. "While awaiting the arrival of the party the captain of the Rambler had gone to<br />

the office of her owners, and the fireman was away after some paint. About fifteen

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