NEW VESSELS

Evening Star, Issue 22682, 23 June 1937, Page 3

NEW VESSELS

GORINDA AH INTERESTING EXPERIMENT. The Corinda, a motor freighter, built by Short Bros. ’Ltd., Sunderland, for A.U.S.N. Co. Ltd., is now in Australian waters, and was due at Sydney about June 21 on its maiden voyage. It has called at Fremantle, but is taking a cargo to Noumea before coining to Sydney (states a Sydney exchange). The new vessel will be engaged in the cargo service between Adelaide and Rockhampton, and its advent in this trade will create much interest, because accommodation has been provided for 12 passengers. Most modern oversea freighters have provision for this number, which is the greatest that can he carried without the vessel having to conform to full passenger vessel regulations. The Corinda, however, will be tho first vessel in the interstate trade to be so equipped. Another new vessel which has reached Australian waters is the Union Line freighter Waiana, which has picked up a Torres Strait pilot and is now on her way down the Queensland coast. It is understood that the Waiana helped

to pay her way out with two charter trips. She will not call at Sydney, hut will proceed to Auckland, probably putting her pilot ashore at Cape Moreton. The Newcastle and Hunter River S.S. Company’s new cargo steamer Muluhinba, a vessel of 1,300 tons, which was described by English shipping papers as the most modern coal-burning steamer of her size afloat, is now in tho Indian Ocean and is due in Sydney in a few weeks’ time. .* Other recently-completed vessels for tho Australian trade at present on their maiden voyages are tho Adelaide S.S. Company’s steamer Bungaree (3,050 tons), which loft Dundee on May 10, and the North Coast Steam Navigation Company’s motor freighter Comara, which left Glasgow on April 10, and was reported at Cristobal on May 19.