SHIPS TO BURN
WOODEN FLEET’S FATE.
(Reuter.)
NEW YORK, September. 11.
A telegram from Norfolk, (Virginia) says that the biggest bonfire ever seen in American waters will occur in a few days when the salvage concern that paid 262,000 dollars toy. a fleet of 218 wooden vessels belonging to the United States will tow the largest of them to a point off Tidewater (Virginia) and burn, them.-, V These ships cost 235 ~b 6 ing constructed during the .woy|a; They are only, a part of the that has been depreciating in.,vajpe, as it has floated on the Jam.e.s,River for several years. Such of tlie,,. ships as can be mounted qn be hauled out and will'be in order to save all their met^i.‘,Tl^qs^ ; which cannot be so stripped of their metal and destroyed off shore.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 13 September 1924, Page 5
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