SCHOONER FROM TAHITI
VOYAGE TO AUCKLAND // ■ : VESSEL TO BE LAID UP Advice has been received by Henderaon and Macfarlane, Limited, that the two-masted schooner Tahiti® me left ' Papeete on September 12 for Auckland, where she is expected to arrive early in October. The vessel is coning here to be laid up. ✓ Constructed at Los Angelcu in 1923 the vessel was intended for a private yacht for Captain C. A. Norton, an American master mariner, who died before she ,was completed. The hull was then purchased by Messrs. S. HI. Maxwell and Company, Island traders, who had it fitted as a trading vessel and then used the vessel in the inter-island trade in the Eastern Pacific, where she was under the French flag for some years. Owing to the slackness of trade the schooner is not now required. She is a wooden vessel of 93 tons and is 93ft. overall, with a 20ffc. beam and a draught of 10ft. oin. She is not fitted with -an engine a,nd her voyage to Auckland will be prolonged.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 12
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174SCHOONER FROM TAHITI New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21910, 20 September 1934, Page 12
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