From collection National Fisherman Collection
LB2012.15.10580
Ship NORDHAFF on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. "Smoke pours from the blazing deckhouse of the 381-ft. West German freighter NORDHAFF in the Gulf of Mexico, 100 miles south of New Orleans, March 24, 1971. One crewman was killed and four others injured. The fire broke out in the engine room and spread to the superstructure after the freighter left New Orleans under escort of the Coast Guard Cutter POINT SAL. The NORDHAFF was bound for France with a cargo of soybeans." [no NF ref]
