EAST PASSAGE
L^TTEIJON TO LONDON !
The New' Zealand. Shipping Com-; pany's- motor cargoTyessel- Otaio; has; made a -.fast' passage -'of ; thifty-threo days- between Lyjttfeltbn-Tand'-London, 7 via Cape Horn and Da_ir. ;: The Otaio left' Lyttelton' oh January 5, and sailed from Dakar on.Jaiinai7-;:31;7:.' She '-,- arrived at London in the afternoon of February 7...' It" is: riot known .Whether the Otaio's performance ft a; record or not, .but-to do the distance in thirtythree days she would liaye "had";'to7 maintain a speed)bf over :fiftee_Cknots,. and possibly do sixteen knots'";'; The Otaio has a number of, smart passages to her credit. - She holds th# : records for the following runs: 'Wef" lington to London, via -Panama, for a cargo vessel; LoAdon to' Townsville, via Suez Canal and Torres Strait)" Ade- : laide to Dunkirk. , It i_ thought-tha* she holds the record. for. rWellihgtoi. to' Southampton; -via Cape -Hqrnj but in the'absence of information, on fast passages over the route, and- the difr ference in the ports .of call "of ISnera ; which'used the route many yea_B ago ■■- and made smart passages,, this'is not certain.,. - - r''. - r
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 11
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179EAST PASSAGE Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 38, 15 February 1933, Page 11
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