FIRST VISIT TO PORT
A single-screw, 10 knot motor vessel which arrived at Lyttelton yesterday afternoon with 890 tons of cement to discharge, is paying her first visit to the port. She is the 984-ton cement carrier Westport, owned by Everards’. of London, and operated by New Zealand Cement Holdings, Ltd., of London. Formerly the Fronsac, built in Belgium for the Mediterranean trade, the Westport is 240 feet long and has three hatches forward. Commanded by Captain E. G Coudrey, the W’estport has a crew of 17. Her normal trade during her three years and a half on the New Zealand coast, is between Westport. Raglan and Onehunga and alternatively. Westport, Napier, and Gisborne. The Westport has an automatic pilot adapted to a magnetic compass in the wheelhouse. She is steered by a horizontal bar instead of the ' conventional helm. After discharge, the Westport will enter the graving dock for her annual overhaul, after which she will resume her normal cement trade.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30531, 28 August 1964, Page 18
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