PARADE OF “GHOST FLEET”
END OF SHIPPING BOARD VESSELS SIXTY-FIVE LEFT TO ROT AWAY. By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. New York, June 5. A parade of a ghost fleet down the Hudson wrote finis to the Shipping Board’s, tide-water advertisement of waste after the war. At one time there were IG4 phantoms, costing 1,000,000 dollars each, besides 200 which Mr. Henry Ford bought for old iron. Some have been burned or sunk, and to-day’s movement will be the last, for the 65 which remain will be left to rot in a secluded cove, thereby ceasing to be a taxpayers’ eyesore.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1931, Page 7
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