SOUVENIR OF LINER
LINK WITH THE MAKURA CLOCK ON CARGO SHIP A souvenir of the LTnion Steam Ship Company’s former passenger liner Makura, which was broken up in China three years ago after steaming more than 2,000,000 miles in Pacific services, is carried by a British steamer, registered in Shanghai, which has arrived at Auckland. It is a clock from one of the public rooms of the well-known liner and it is being used in the day cabin of the master. Captain R. A. Young, who commanded the Makura on her last voyage to China. Captain Young, who has been for many years connected with shipping on the China coast, also took the Union Company’s cargo steamer Kurow, renamed Mabel Moller, to Shanghai in 1935. The steamer was finally lost in La Perouse Strait, Japan, some years later, but the name Kurow is perpetuated by a steamer built ror the Union Company last year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 11
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154SOUVENIR OF LINER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20241, 8 May 1940, Page 11
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