THE TAHITIENNE SOLD
USE FOR FISHING PLANNED EXTENSIVE ALTERATIONS After lying idle in Auckland Harbour for 16 months the Island schooner Tahitienne has been sold privately for £l5O. Last week the vessel was offered for sale at auction, but was withdrawn when she failed to attract a bid of more than £IOO. The Tahitienne is now owned by a syndicate of Yugoslavs, who intend converting tho vessel for fishing. An engine to cost about £IOOO to £I2OO is to bo installed and other alterations and repairs to tho vessel are expected to increase the total cost of refitting to about £3OOO.
Constructed at Los Angeles in 1923 the vessel was intended for a private yacht .for Captain A. C. Norton, an American master mariner, who died before she was completed. Tho hull was then purchased by Messrs. S. R. Maxwell and Company, Island traders, who had it fitted as a trading vessel for tho inter-island trade in the South' Pacific, where she was under the French flag for some years. Owing to the slackness of trade she was withdrawn from commission and later she was sent to be sold at Auckland, where she arrived on October 13, 1934.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22348, 20 February 1936, Page 12
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