SHIPS THAT PASS.
UNCLE SABFS "WOODEN FLEET. ! j TO ASCEND IN SMOKE. ', NEW YORK. September 12. | I A message from Norfolk. Virginia, i , state? that the biggest bonfire ever seen j in American waters will occur in a few j days, when the salvage concern that pain | £52,000 for a fleet of _18 wooden vessels. I belonging to the United State? Govern- ! ment, will tow the largest of them to a| point off the tidewater of Virginia and | burn them. These ships cost £47.000,000. | having been constructed during the world . war, and are only part the idle fleet ! that ha.? been depreciating in value as it j floated in the* James River for several years. Such of the ship? as can be I mounted on skids and hauled out will b* I burned ashore, in order to'save all their' , metal. Those which cannot be so handled j | will be stripped of their metal and 1 destroyed off the shore.— (A. and X.Z.) I
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 218, 13 September 1924, Page 7
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