SUCCESSFUL TRIALS
NEW STEAMER MATAI
LEAVING THIS WEEK
'The -lieu* lighthouse steamer Matai, : built to replace +<ho Tutanekai, is c*« pected to leave for New Zealand ouj Friday, and should arrive nere about) the first week- in October. •'■ - -■■■
Aeeorduig to cabled. advice receive^ by the Marine Department, the MataE has undergone lier speed and stabilityj trials at sea, and the results hava been, entirely Batisfactory. ■ The contract speed of 11^ knots is reported to hay«( been slightly exceeded.
The Matai was launched at Hebbura* on-Tyne on 11th July by Sir Thomatf and Lady Wilford, and her bmldersjj Messrs. Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Ltd.,are responsible for her'delivery in .Not*; Zealand.
The vessel is being brought - out byj Captain Manning who, in the cotirse'ol; his lengthy career, has delivered about GO new vessels to all parts of the world.He is 74 years of age, and first'visited) New Zealand as a lad of 17 on tße fullrigged ship Sanspariel. For. 25 yearrf he-,served as a master with the General Steam Navigation Co., of London, an<l then temporarily retired from the sea* While on a visit to London he was induced1 to take a new vessel : out to; Savannah, and that trip marked ...thfl! oponing of a new lease of sea life. Towards the end of last year he brought^ out the Otago Harbour Board's; new; dredge Otakou, and there were inanyj thrilling moments in the voyage of 94 days, the vessel at ono stagei; running short of fuel. ' . ' "-.■■■'■■- '
The Matai has been constructed toj burn either oil or coal, but it is understood that she is burning oil on hee maiden trip, and she will.continue ttt] burn oil fuel while in the lighthotis«j service. • * ' s . .".'-■
SUCCESSFUL TRIALS
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 36, 11 August 1930, Page 11
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