In 1877 Cleopatra's Needle was encased in a cylindrical raffc and launched. The strange vessel and the ship that towed it encountered bad luck almost from the first. Terrific storms arose, and in the Bay of Biscay the raft had to be abandoned. It seemed that Cleopatra's Needle had been lost to us. But a year later it was recovered, taken to London, and placed on the Thames Embanlgpaenfc.:
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 20
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