Fairmiles Laid Up
(Special) AUCKLAND. This Day. After rather more than two years’ act-,, ive service with the Royal New Zealand Navy as a flotilla, most of the Fairmile motor launches which recently returned Jrom duty in the Solomons are' now lying at moorings in the upper harbour between Pine Island and Greenhithe. They have been disarmed, and their crews have been paid offi. although a few officers and men are on board for maintenance purposes. Each vessel is, reported to have cost at least £40,000 to build.
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Northern Advocate, 22 August 1945, Page 2
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88Fairmiles Laid Up Northern Advocate, 22 August 1945, Page 2
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