VESSEL'S LAST VOYAGE.
TOWED TO SEA AND SUNK.
(From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, March 28. H.M.C.S. Pioneer made her last vovafre on March 24. when the dismantled "hull wax towed 12 miles out to sea and sunk with explosive*. She went down with her flajr flying Captain <;. H. Xasmvth «|»<l Mr. 11. Sabl.eu supervi-ed the sinkTl>e Pioneer w, w fonncrlv a private vaeht t,, „ j|r. Sin<;er and «•"" "I to l-'iji in I»2». Since t) she has r-ervcd the Covernment of Fiji and Western Pacific Hijrh Commission as a yacht. Last year she w>is condemned and had since been lied up at tlie Covernnient wharf. Wain Bay. The machinery and littinjiK wore sold at auction about a month ago.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 81, 6 April 1938, Page 18
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