FATE OF PHILOMEL
CEREMONIAL SINKING BUYERS’ OFFER ACCEPTED (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 2. The Naval Department in'Wellington has agreed to accept the offer of the Strongman Shipping Company, Ltd., which recently purchased the veteran cruiser Philomel, to arrange to have the vessel towed to deep water and sunk with fitting ceremonial. Mr S. Strongman, of Coromandel, says he anticipates no difficulty about this, as the company intends to leave the hull intact after it has finished work on it. Mr Strongman hopes to take the Philomel over as soon as possible after the naval yard at Devonport reopens on January 13. The parts in which the Strongman Company is principally interested are her teak decks and certain portions that have been added during war-time to the original structure. These are to be used in the building of a new twinscrew 90ft motor vessel, on which the company is now engaged 1 at Coromandel, and which will carry a brass plaque commemorating the Philomel.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26350, 3 January 1947, Page 4
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