OLD COAL HULK
Link With Early New Zealand Shipping NZPA'—Copyright Rec. 8.30 p.m. PERTH, May 14. A link with old time New Zealand shipping has been severed by the decision to sink the coal hulk Bankfields which has operated in Fremantle for 32 years. Once a trim barque of 859 tons, the Bankfields was built in Sunderland in 1876. She was purchased by Turnbull and Co., of Lyttelton, and for some years plied between Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Bankfields is the sole survivor of the hulk fleet which catered for Fremantle bunkering requirements throughout this century. They numbered such notable greyhounds of the sailing days as the Tamerlane, Lochness, Condordia, Kircudbrightshire, Thornliebank. and Samuel Plimsoll.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27389, 15 May 1950, Page 5
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118OLD COAL HULK Otago Daily Times, Issue 27389, 15 May 1950, Page 5
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