A WEST COAST SHIP

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 March 1923, Page 7

A WEST COAST SHIP

GREY COMPANY’S ENTERPRISE. Another vessel will enter Greymouth’s gradually increasing shipping trade when the steamer Tees, 735 tons dead-weight, a trim-looking slatefunnelled ship, not unlike the Orepuki, arrives from Picton on Sunday alter a voyage from England, with Captain Dowell (formerly of the Ngakuta) at the helm. She brings general cargo to

this port. Special interest attaches to the arrival of the vessel by reason of the fact that it is a West Coast concern that has brought the vessel to New Zealand, the Westland Shipping Coy. _ This company, for which Messrs Wild and Robertson act as agents, recognised that a great service could be done to the South Island if a more regular coastal esrvice, taking in the Chatnam Islands, could be instituted. They clecided therefore to purchase a vessel suited to their requirements and Captain Dowell was sqnt to to the Old Country to purchase the vessel and bring it out to New Zealand. Accommodation for 24 passengers is provided on the Tees, while it is capable of carrying. 240,000 superficial feet of timber or 730 tons of coal. She is a steel screw steamer built m 1912 by tne Goold Shipbuilding Coy. Following are her dimensions :—Length, 166 feet; breadth, 20ft. 2in.; deprfi, lift. 9in.