OLD OCEANIC LINERS
Scrap Metal for Japan
As already announced, the old Oceanic liners Sierra, Sonoma and Ventura, so well known in New Zealand .and Australian waters, have been sold to Japanese interests to break up for scrap. They have been laid up in San Francisco Bay for the last two years or longer, since the Mariposa and Monterey took their places on the California-New Zealand-Australia run. The three old-time liners were built in 1900, and have travelled close to 1,000,000 miles each in that service. Commodore. J. H. Trask, commander of the Sierra, who retired two years ago, is hale and hearty at his home in Berkeley. Captain J. F. McManus of the Sonoma is now maintenance superintendent nt the Matson Line docks, and Captain AV. If. Meyer of the Ventura commands the new Oceanic liner Mnr posa. The three old ships will go to Japan probably under their own pow within the next two months. The Ventura has been one of the “strikebreakers’ hotels” during the longshoremen ’s strike.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 213, 22 August 1934, Page 8
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