PRIVATE MOTOR YACHT
FORMER CHANNEL STEAMER
TO VISIT NEW ZEALAND
SYDNEY. February 6.
A handsome private motor yacht named the Rosaura, which was formerly the Channel steamer Dieppe, arrived quietly arid unexpectedly In Sydney Harbour today, bringing its owner, Lord.Moyne, and his guests, Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife of the British statesman, Lady Broughton,' Mr. Terence 'Phillips, and Captain and Mr*, E. O. Kellett on a pleasure cruise. Captain and Mrs. Kellett trans* ferred to the outgoing Monterey eri route for America..
The Rosaura, which is of 1538 tons and is 273 feet in length, is most comfortably equipped,, but is not an attempt at a luxury ship. She left London 7J weeks ago on a leisurely; cruise to the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, Madras, and Rangoon. She will tail tonight for New Zealand and New Guinea.
The Dieppe was built by Fairfield at Glasgow in 1905, one of. the first turbine steamers, and was formerly; owned by the Southern Railway and engaged in the Newhaveri-Dieppe run.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 11
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