HOLMWOOD SOLD
Singapore firm buyer (N.Z. Press Association) NELSON, Oct. 24. The coastal vessel Holmwood has been sold to a Singapore shipping company and has been renamed King Fish. The superintendent of the Guan Guan Shipping Company (Mr A. F. Tonnies) is in Nelson with an Australian master and 14 Singapore crewmen.
The ship is expected to sail from Nelson at. the end of the month after a survey, pres-sure-water cleaning, and repainting. She will be used by the company on its service between Singapore and Indonesia.
She is the company’s thirty-fifth vessel; the smaller ones are used to trade between Singapore and Indonesia, while the larger vessels trade to Australia and China. The Holmwood has been laid up at Nelson for nearly a year. She was built in the Netherlands shipyard of Bodewes, Ltd, at Martenhoek in 1953. She is 797 gross tons and was owned by the Holm Shipping Company. Mr Tonnies would not disclose the price paid.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33056, 25 October 1972, Page 3
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