Mission Ship Due To Visit Auckland
AUCKLAND Thu. (Sp.)—VisitingNew Zealand for the first time since her release from the Royal Australian Navy, the Melanesian Mission vessel Southern Cross \ ,: II. is expected in Auckland during t\ie week-end.
The general secretary of the mission (Major H. F. N. Robinson) is among the passengers, who will attend the consecration of the Very Rev. S. C. Caulton, as Bishop of Melanesia. Shortly after his consecration the new bishop hopes to visit the islands in the Southern Cross. The Southern Cross was released by the Australian Navy in 1946. and made her first peace-time voyage with a crew of planters and residents of the Solomons who were stranded in Australia.
She has run regularly ever since with a crew of natives signed on in the islands. The Southern Cross was built in 1933 to replace the vessel that' was wrecked on Aneityum Island in November. 1932. With raking stem, elliptical counterstern, two pole masts and single funnel, the vessel is 110 ft long, with a moulded breadth of 28ft. 6in. and a moulded depth of 12ft 6in . The hull is constructed of mild steel to Lloyd’s highest class for fullpowered yachts.
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1948, Page 2
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