SHIPS TO BE BURNED.
AMERICA'S WOODEN FLEET. COST £47,000.000 TO BUILD. END OF YEARS OF IDLENESS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received 10.20 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK. Sept. 11. A message from Norfolk, Virginia, states that the biggest bonfire ever seen in American waters will occur in a few days, when the salvage concern that paid £52,000 for a fleet of 210 wooden vessels, belonging to tho United States Government, will tow the largest of them to a point off the tidewater of Virginia and hum them. These ships cost £47.000,000, having been constructed during tho world war, and are only part of the idlo fleet that has been depreciating in value as it floated in the James River for several years. Such of the ships as can be mounted on skids and hauled out will ho burned ashore, in order to save all their metal. Those which cannot be so bandied will be stripped of their metal and destroyed off tho shore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18813, 13 September 1924, Page 11
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