MAIPURA LOADS WOOL

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29390, 17 December 1960, Page 17

MAIPURA LOADS WOOL

Brocklebank Vessel At Lyttelton

The ships of the Brocklebank Line rarely come to New Zealand, yet the 9748-ton turbine steamer. Maipura. commanded by Captain C. W. C. Parry, is paying her second visit to Lyttelton in 12 months. Under charter to the Port Line, the Maipura, one of 26 Brocklebank ships which maintain a regular service between the United States, United Kingdom, and India, will, lift a Lyttelton cargo of 17.000 bales of wool for Dunkirk, Antwerp, Hull, and London.

Intluded in her crew of 90 are European officers, engineers, apprentices. and quartermasters, but most of the crew are Hindus and Moslems. The Brocklebank Line, one of Britain’s oldest, and a close associate of the Cunard Line (allows its officers to have their wives afloat with them, but between each voyage a wife has to stay ashore for six months.

Mrs C. W. C. Pa’rry, Mrs D. L. de Landes, and Mrs R. Gordon, wives of the master, chief officer and chief engineer respectively, are sharing each other's company on this voyage. They have visited Rotorua and Taupo, and hope to see something of the South Island before the Maipura leaves Lyttelton for Dunkirk at the end of this month.