So the Mantua was sold to the China Ship Breakers Ltd. Previously, ships that were broken up out here were scrapped in Japan. The Mantua Ig the biggest ship of her size ever to go into a yard here for dismantting.
She is a 10,987-ton vessel, and is 540 feet long, has a beam of 61 feet 3 inches, and' has a depth of 24 feet, inches, Out of date though she is, her furniture is still on a par with, and some cases even better than, the luxuriously appointed ships that have been built in recent years.
"After this week there will be an auction sale of all the appointments of the ship, as was done in the case All the furniture be sold. Tables, chairs, lamps, silver, china, beds bureaux, everything that the ship possesses.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.