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CAPTAIN GEO. lIOLFORD'S DEATH, FATE OF A WARSHIP. By Telegraph.— Press Association. Christchureh, Last Night. -Mr. G. H. Holford, Christchureh, has received advice that H.M.S. Samson, }n which vessel his father, Captain George Holford, was engaged on Admiralty work, has been posted at Lloyds as having been lost. She. left Plymouth on November Bth, and was last spoken of off Cape Finißferre on November 20th. Captain Holford was for twenty years in the Union Company's service and was master of the Takapuna, Tofna, and other wellknown ships- For a time he was harbormaster at New Plymouth. He took to the sea during the war, and served on Admiralty work in the North Sea, and other waters. <
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 4
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119LOST AT SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1920, Page 4
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