HUGE BONFIRE.
SHIPS TO BE BURNT
i* CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Sept. 11. A telegram from Norfolk, Virginia, says that the biggest bonfire ever seen in American waters will occur in a few days, when a salvage concern that paid 262,000 dollars for a fleet of 218 wooden vessels belonging to the United States will tow the largest of them to a point off Virginia and bum them. These ships cost 235,000,000 dollars, being constructed during the world war. They are only part of the idle fleet that has been depreciating in value as it floated on the James river for several years. Such of the ships as can be mounted on skids and hauled out will be burned ashore in order to save all their metal, and those which cannot be so handled will be stripped of their metal and destroyed off the shore.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 5
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146HUGE BONFIRE. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 September 1924, Page 5
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