OLD BARQUE BLOWN UP
•P.A.) Auckland, Dec. 19. The 68-year-old iron bhrque Gladbrook was towed out of the harbour io-nighl, and blown up with a 151 b charge of gelignite in a few feet of water near Gardiners Cove, on the north-east side of Rangitoto Island, at high tide at 7.3(1 p.m. Apart from a short period at the end of the first World War, when, rigged as three-masted barque, she made a trip to San Francisco, the Gladbrook had been used as a coal hulk at Auckland since 1911 by the Union Steam Ship Company. The Gladbrook was stripped of all useful equipment and material.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 6
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106OLD BARQUE BLOWN UP Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 301, 21 December 1945, Page 6
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