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I’m told that the beautiful launch Rongo, was reduced to this after she went AWOl from her Algies Bay mooring in a piping gale.

Witnesses said it was amazing how quickly she was reduced to matchwood. Sad.

Wreck photos ex Russell Ward, click to enlarge.

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