AUSTRALIAN NEWS
WAITOMO ASHORE,
; BRISBANE, July 1. ' Tlio steamer Waitpmo is ashore •aear Rattray Island. Sh© does nox> require assistance. - . • , [The. Waitpmo/is one of the biggest vessels in the Union Company's cargo fleet, and displaces 4214 tons gross register. .- She avss built in 1911 at Newcastle by the Northumb«rland' Shipbuilding Company, and was formerly known as tho Giffoixl. She is 380 ft. long, 49ft. in beairi, and 26i-ft. in depth. ; The; ...Waitomo.-'-is-very well known ;in '.;Wellington, under the' command' of- Captain.Harris, andl was last here . about three weeks ago, when she arrived with a. lonfl of coal from Westport. '^Rattray Island is situated' near . Bri*iai:e.] , i
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Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 7
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106AUSTRALIAN NEWS Marlborough Express, Volume L, Issue 155, 3 July 1916, Page 7
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