SALE OF THE OPHIR
FOR UNDER A POUND A TON,
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIOHT.) (AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received September 9, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Bth September. The steamer Ophir, 6942 tons, waa sold at auction for about £6000. The Admiralty refused £45,000 for her in March, 1920. [The Ophir was built in 1891. She is the vessel in which the present King and Queen visited the Dominions in 1901.] '
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 61, 9 September 1921, Page 7
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69SALE OF THE OPHIR Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 61, 9 September 1921, Page 7
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