LONG SERVICE ENDS
THE E. R. STERLING
Well-Known Sailer for the Ship* breakers RESULT OF RECENT BATTERING (Bj Telegraph—Per Pres* Assn.— Copyright.) Received March 25, 5.5 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, March 24. There is a distinct touch of pathos in the fact that the E. R. Sterling is to end her 45 years of noble life at a shipbreaker’s yard. Her last terrible battering meant the end. "She is to bo towed round this week-end. Then we part,” said Captain Sterling. "I could refit her at a cost of £5OOO, but freights are depressed. An expert says that in the present state of the market the E. R. Sterling, for which the captain once rejected an offer of £15,000, would not realise more than £4OOO.
Captain Sterling is undecided as to the future. Ho.thinks he may give up sailers in favour of steam, but in any case he is going to America first, and then to Australia.
The touch of the sxa-dog was apparent when he was informed that the ship would have to be ballasted in order to be towed. Captain Sterling said: "It is not necessary to have her ballasted. I will >tay aboard throughout the tow and show von.’ •*
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20105, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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