COLLIER BLOWN UP
END OF RAKANOA Press Assoctallon. WELLINGTON, Monday. Filled with a few tons of scrap iron and with all valuable equipment stripped from her, the Union Company’s collier Rakanoa began her last voyage to sea shortly after 11 o’clock this . morning. The vessel was towed into Cook Strait to be sunk beyond the 100-fathom line. A hole was blown in the side of the hull with explosives, and after 12 minutes the vessel sank.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 14
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76COLLIER BLOWN UP Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 337, 24 April 1928, Page 14
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