STEAMER’S UNUSUAL HISTORY
FIVE OWNERS IN FOUR YEARS WAIKAWA'B VALUE DOUBLES IN 1937 Once well known in the New Zealand and Australian trade as the Union Steam Ship Company’s Waikawa, the old steamer Huntress has again been sold. The Hunter Shipping Company, of London, disposed of her to Jamaican owners at *a big profit—her value was more than redoubled during the past year. The Huntress was bought at the end of 1936, when the second-hand tonnage market was just beginning to improve, for £29,000, and she was sold a few weeks ago for £60,000. _ The steamer was built in 1919 for the Union Company as the Waikawa, being of 5,677 tons gross. After running in the Pacific service from Canada to New Zealand and Australia, she made several voyages under charter to the Argentine Government, carrying Australian coal. In 1934 she was sold to Anglo-Greek interests for £13,500, and a few months later she became the Tower Ensign, owned by the Tower Steamship Company, of London. In November, 1936, the steamer was Bold to the Hunter Company.
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Evening Star, Issue 22878, 9 February 1938, Page 5
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177STEAMER’S UNUSUAL HISTORY Evening Star, Issue 22878, 9 February 1938, Page 5
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