FAST STEAMING.
MONOWAPS 18 KNOTS.
SYDNEY TO AUCKLAND RUN.
Using only five of her sis boilers, the Union Company's passenger steamer Monowai, which arrived at Auckland from Sydney yesterday afternoon, broke her own record for the run by crossing in under three days.
"Full 'speel ahead" was ordered as the • vessel passed Bradley's Head, in Sydney Harbour, at 4.39 p.m. on Friday. Outside the heads, she encountered a heavy head swell, but by noon the following day she had run 344 miles, having averaged 17.9 knots. ' A heavy southerly swell was experienced during the next two days, but the Monowai made runs-of 428 miles and 422 miles, averaging over 18 knots. Coming down the East Coast, after rounding North Cape, she maintained 18.84 knots until the order was given* to reduce, speed as the vessel passed Bean Rock at 4.31 p.m. yesterday. -Her average speed for the whole distance was 1'8.27 knots, as compared with 17.7 on her previous passage. > ' '■ " '
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 19, 24 January 1933, Page 3
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