Historic war cannon spirited away in middle of night

CCTV captured the moment thieves took off with war cannon away from Ōkahu Bay. Photo: PoliceNew images show the moment thieves took off with a 205-year-old decommissioned war cannon on the back of a truck in the middle of the night. At around 3.15am on June 1, thieves used a crane to lift the weapon onto the back of a blue flatbed truck. At the time it was in storage at the Ōrākei Marina near Ōkahu Bay in Auckland and was just hours away from its relocation to a secure storage site, as reported by Stuff. The Crimean War cannon, which has been in Auckland for 163 years and situated at Ōkahu Bay for 71 years, was gifted to New Zealand in the mid-1800s.