TANKER SCRAPPED
HULL NOW ONLY A SHELL TO BE SUNK NEXT WEEK They grey shell of the veteran naval tanker Nucula was nosed into her last berth, at the eastern side of Export Wharf, Auckland, on Wednesday afternoon. In the past five months at her old moorings off Westhaven shipbreakers have stripped practically everything of commercial value, but a number of heavy components will be landed by cranes on the waterfront before she is towed to sea and scuttled. The largest ship ever to be scrapped in New Zealand, the 41-year-old Nucula has provided tons of valuable material for the breakers, A. C. Ratcliffe, Limited of Penrose, The 22-ton engine bed, an B§-ton spare propeller and the tanker’s tailshaft will be lifted by the floating crane Mahua and the windlass and anchors, deckhouses, funnel and ventilators will be removed by wharf cranes. The Nucula’s owners expect that it will take 10 days to finish dismantling and it is probable that at the end of next week two tugs will take her in tow on her last voyage, to the 100fathom mark outside the Hauraki Gulf
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22426, 5 September 1947, Page 4
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185TANKER SCRAPPED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22426, 5 September 1947, Page 4
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