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Fittings of famous ships, like their, memory, never seem to wear out. Recently, when an old skylight was loaded on to an American steamer at Victoria Dock,. Melbourne, it recalled j memories of the steamer Rotomahana— a sort of stepping stone between the clipper ship and the modern steamer tin Australian waters. Built for the | Union Steam Ship Co. of New Zealand in 1879, the Rotomahana, a vessel of only 1770 tons, was'the largest and most elaborate steamer of her day, and when trading to New Zealand in the 80's was world renowned as the "Greyhound of the South Pacific." Later, for many decades, the ' long clipper-bowed steamer was well known'in the Yarra, as she served in the Melbourne-Laun-ceston run before being scuttled outside Port Phillip Heads 15 years ago. The skylight, which has been in use . as a greenhouse in a Toorak garden, j states the Melbourne "Age." is being shipped to the New York Historical Society Museum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 11
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 11
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