THE WHANGAPE.
Cable advice has been received at Sydney that the Union Company's new steamer Whangape has called at Cape Town, en route to Sydney and New Zealand. She is one of the largest of the "red-funnel" fleet, and ia described as constructed to Lloyd's spar-deck rule, 100 Al cbsa. Her dimensions are : Length, 330 ft; breadth of beam, 44ft 8 Jin; depth of hold, 25ft 9in ; with a deadweight carrying oapaoity of 4700 tons. The npper deoka are of steal and iron, and the poop, bridge, and forecastle decks of pitch pine. . ' She has triple expansion engines by Messrs T. Richardson and Sons, Limited, of Hartlepool, with cylinders 23in 36in and 59in in diameter, a 42in stroke, supplied by two large single-ended boilers. Messrs Boylston, Uixon and Co., Limited, of Middleaborongh, England, are the builders of the Whangape.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11561, 14 June 1900, Page 1
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