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TAKAPUNA’S LAST TRIP. ■ / - The steamer Takapuna, formerly ' Owned 'by the Union Steam Ship Company, and bought by ship-breakers some months ago, was towed to sea from Wellington yesterday and synk.in Cook " Strait. . . The .vessel had..been stripped, and was merely an empty shell .when-- the tug Cowan took her. in, at 7.55 ,-a.m. yesterday. r.t'-:. *' The Takapuna was taken out- to about- eight miles south by east of the Wellington Heads. Two • charges of explosives were attached to time fuses. The men aboard lighted 'the fuses and then transferred ithe Cowan, which was right alongside ;the doomed vessel. Tljere was a moderate southerly swell at the time. .The Cowan stood off at about 100 yards’, . dis-. * -:ii !>■:*/; The first charge boomed, and ■ the Takapuna shortly after commenced to settle stern first. The second charge sent up a volume of smoke through the vessel’s skylights. The ship now filled auickly, and within ten minutes -. of JBL, firing of the first charge she slipbeneath the waves stem downwards. She finally disappeared at 1.55 p.m.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1925, Page 5
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