COAL HULK DEMOLISHED
P.A. AUCKLAND, This Day. The 68-year-old iron barque Gladbrook was towed out of the harbour and blown up with a 151b charge of gelignite in a few feet of water near Gardiner's Cove on the north-east side of Rangitoto Island at high tide last night. Apart from a short period at the end of the first World War, when rigged as a three-masted barque, she made a trip to ian Francisco, the Gladbrook had been used as a coal i? T ul. k 'at Auckland since 1911 by the Union Steam Ship Company. The Gladbrook was stripped of all useful equipment and material.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 10
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106COAL HULK DEMOLISHED Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 10
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