GREAT BONFIRE.
DESTRUCTION OP WOODEN VESSELS. (Reuter’s Telegram.; NEW YORK, Sept. 11. A telegram from Norfolk, Virginia, says the biggest bonfire ever seen in American waters will occur in a few days when the salvage concern that paid 262,0C0. dollars for the fleet of 218 wooden vessels belonging to the United States will tow the largest of them to a point off the tidewater, Virginia., and burn them. - These ships cost 235,0C0,000 dollars, being constructed during the world war. They are only part of an idle fleet that has been depreciated in value as.it floated in James river for several years. Such of the ships as can be mounted l on skids are to be hauled out, to be burned ashore in order to save all their metal. Those which cannot be so handled l will be stripped of their metal and destroyed off ashore. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16533, 13 September 1924, Page 7
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