Madras fuel tanks on fire, WWI
Oil tanks of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Burmah Oil Company, on fire in Madras (now Chennai), India, and belching thick black smoke after being shelled by the German light cruiser SMS Emden which caused havoc for British ships in the Indian Ocean during World War One
Picture No
14094888
Media ID
45859973
Size
4912px x 3464px
(1.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph in personal scrap album
Date
22nd September 1914
