TRAWLER SIMPLON
SERVICE DURING THE WAR Negotiations are in progress for the sale of the trawler Simplon, which lias been laid up for over three years and will probably have her machinery dismantled. The vessel was built in Scotland in 1898 and at one time was owned by the Auckland City Council, which also owned the trawler Cowan, the two vessels supplying fish for the municipal fish market, which was' discontinued. For some years afterwards the vessel was laid up in the stream until she was bought by the Auckland Launch and Tow Boat Company and converted into a tug-boat. When tho company purchased its present tug Kumea, the Simplon was sold and reconverted into a trawler, but she has been idle since the trawling company ceased business. During the war the Simplon, with the trawler Nora Niven, was used for mine-sweeping on the New Zealand coast, to recover mines laid by the German raider Wolf. Both trawlers narrowly escaped destruction off Farewell Spit when a floating mine became entangled in tho trawl wire and exploded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21641, 6 November 1933, Page 11
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176TRAWLER SIMPLON New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21641, 6 November 1933, Page 11
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