HULK OF WARSPITE
ADRIFT JN GALE LAND’S END INCIDENT TUGS STRIKE TROUBLE LONDON, April 21. Caught in an 80-rnile-an-hour gale during her tow to the Clyde shipbreakers, the battleship Warspite is adrift off Land’s End and is being carried towards the open sea. The Warspite was an empty gunless hulk. Thirty-foot seas parted one of the tug’s cables to the Warspite and foiled repeated efforts.to replace it. The other tug, though it still had a line aboard, was unable to prevent the wind blowing the warship to leeward. The gale caught the Warspite south of Wolf Rock light, eight miles southwest of Land’s End. One of the turrets from which her 15-inch guns were removed worked loose from the building she received. A warning has been issued to all shipping.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22312, 23 April 1947, Page 5
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130HULK OF WARSPITE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22312, 23 April 1947, Page 5
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