Schooner Joins Rabaul Fleet
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) RABAUL (New Guinea). A three-masted iron schooner, built in Kid, Germany, in igai as a naval training ship, is the latest vessel to join Rabaul’a large fleet of inter-island traders. She is the Gerard—97 tons net, 225 tons gross—bought by New Britain Shipping, Ltd., to replace the Inaha which sank last year. The Gerard was brought out to Australia in 1925, ran between Adelaide and New Zealand ports for a number of years, then changed to Australian coastal runs During the Second World War she was requisitioned for naval work in New Guinea waters, and later returned to the coastal trade. Last year, she spent several months as a salvage ship recovering cargo and fittings from the motor vessel Runic, which was wrecked on Middleton Reef, in the Tasman Sea. The Gerard is still rigged for sail, but her new owners say the runs between islands are too short for sail. Instead, she will be propelled by her engine, which gives a speed of eight and a half knots.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30338, 14 January 1964, Page 5
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