SOLD TO SHIPBREAKERS.
OLD STEAMER DAPHNE.
FORMER PASSENGER CARRIER
Many picnic-going Aucklanders have travelled by the Northern Company's steamer Daphne, but her former passengers would hardly recognise her now, lying alongside the North Wall with shipwrights busy aboard stripping her of all that is worth salving. The Northern Company has sold her to the shipbrcakers, who brought her in this morning from her moorings in Rotten Row for dismantling. Built at Auckland in 1007 by Mr. W. H. Browne, the Daphne is a wooden vessel of 192 tons gross. For many years she ran to ports in the Hauraki Gulf, carrying in her day many summer excursions to the beaches of Waiheke Island. When she was at last withdrawn from service she was laid up for a time in the Paeroa River, but was later brought to Auckland to poin the other veterans in Rotten Row.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1931, Page 3
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146SOLD TO SHIPBREAKERS. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1931, Page 3
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