FLOATING MINE
SUNK BY RIFLE FIRE
(P.A.) AUCKLAND, September 8.
A floating mine was sunk by rifle fire from the Gisborne sheep farmers' motor-vessel Margaret W. and the Richardson Line motor-ship Kopara about 19 miles outside White Island last Thursday morning. The mine was reported to be adrift on Sunday, August 31, by the Superintendent of Mercantile Marine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 9
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58FLOATING MINE Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 9
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