LOONGANA'S MAIDEN TRIP.
19.6 Miles an Hour. (Received 10.34 a.m.) HOBART, this day. The turbine steamer Loongana, on her maiden voyage from Melbourne to Laimceston, took ten hours from heads to heads, or 151 hours for the whole journey, an average of 19.G knots, despite a nasty sea.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 251, 20 October 1904, Page 5
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48LOONGANA'S MAIDEN TRIP. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 251, 20 October 1904, Page 5
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