END OF PHILOMEL'S SERVICE
AUCKLAND, Jan. 14. With only the simplest ceremony the veteran cruiser Philoniel, mother-ship of the ltoyal New Zealand Navy, will ond her 56 years of naval service this week. If conditions are favourable she will be towed on Friday from her fainiliar bertli at the Devonport base to Coromandel where her new owners, the Strongman Shipping Coinpany Ltd., will strip her of her decks and iittiugs for use in new sliip eonstruction. O11 reaching Coromandel the cruiser will be secured at a sheltered berth about 200 . vards oif the Coromandel wharf and she will tlien be ballasted to rest easily 011 the bottoiu. This procedure will facilitale her being taken to sea for siuking when the stripping is compleled. Tlie vessel is of 2575 tons and draws 8l't forward and 12ft afL
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1947, Page 3
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136END OF PHILOMEL'S SERVICE Chronicle (Levin), 15 January 1947, Page 3
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