NEW MOTOR-SHIP
IMPERIAL STAR'S TRIALS
Advice has been received by the local office of the Blue Star Line that the now motor-ship Imperial Star carried out her trials on December 2&| The average speed with and aeains* the tide was 15.6 knots. The vessel the first of the three new motor-ship* | ordered by the company, the other vessels being the New Zealand Star the Australian Star. They will be si*"! ter ships, each of about 10,670 tons| grass, and have been built specially the carriage of produce from New 2e»|| land and Australia to Great Britain.C| On her maiden voyage the Ira peri®* Star will come to New Zealand in ba|| last. The vessel was scheduled to l® a *|| England on Thursday for Au<:klan|fj Wellington, Timaru, Bluff and Chalmers, where she will load. She 'V due at Auckland about February 4. Tb«. New Zealand Star is scheduled to l England for New Zealand in on February 20 and is due in New land about March 25. I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22000, 5 January 1935, Page 8
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