NEW VESSEL
ADOKL AND-T AUK A(NG A IT? ADE Auckland, Feb. 23 The purchase of the new |twinscrew cargo motor-vessel Ranginui by the Northern Steamship Company for immediate service in the Auck-land-Tauranga trade was announced yesterday by the chairman of directors of the company, Mr Ernest Davis.
The Ranginui, said Mr Davis, was a powerful and useful vessel and was faster than the average coastal craft of her type. She would undertake a hi-weekly timetable, leaving Auckland on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and Tauranga on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. She would leave on her first trip to-day, Tuesday.
Since her purchase from Mr G. T. Niccol, to whose order she had been brought out from 'Scotland last year, the Ranginui had been placed on the slip for cleaning and painting.. Built by Scott and Sons, Glasgow, in 1936, she is a twin-screw Diesel-engined centreboard vessel of 158 tons gross and 52 tons net register. On her trials she made a speed of nine knots. Her dimensions are; Length, 105 ft.; breadth, 2 2ft.; and depth, 6ft. 9in.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 2
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177NEW VESSEL Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXV, Issue 12258, 23 February 1937, Page 2
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