PLANES TO BE SCRAPPED
PLANS FOR DUMPING IN SEA SYDNEY, January 17. Three hundred carrier aeroplanes of the British Pacific Fleet will be dumped into the sea off Sydney Heads in the next 10 days, from the escort carrier Pioneer. Some of the aeroplanes are new, but most have been flown. Their nominal war-time value would be about £7,500.000. but they are described by the Royal Navy as being “surplus, obsolete, and of no value to anybody.” “The end of a war is always a period of apparent waste,” said a Royal Navy spokesman. “There are bound to be surpluses of materials for which there is no use. American Avengers, Hellcats. and Corsairs, and British Barraqudas are now obsolete and and they are the aeroplones we will dump. They will be stripped of useful parts, such as instruments, compasses, and clocks.”
Later the Navy will dump a further 420 aeroplanes, including wrecks. There is apparently a glut of aluminium in Australia, as buyers for wrecks on aerodromes cannot be found.
The Pioneer will commence loading the aircraft to-day, and will dump them in deep water 20 miles off the coast.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24777, 18 January 1946, Page 5
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