OLD COLLIER SUNK.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) v WELLINGTON, Monday.
Filled with a few tons of scrap iron and with all valuable equipment stripped from her, the Union Company's collier Ra kanoa commenced her last voyage to sea shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. The vessel was towed into Cook Strait, beyond the 100-fathom line, a hole was blown in the side of her hull
rwith explosives, and in twelve minutes she had gone.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 9
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