FATE OF OLD SHIPS
SCRAP METAL FOR JAPAN SEVERAL STEAMERS IN SOUTH A number of old vessels are now in the hands of shipbreakers in New Zealand and arc being converted into scrap metal to be shipped to Japan. In addition to the hull of the old barque Rothesay Bay, which is being broken up at Auckland, the steamer Calm at Lyttelton and the steamers Regains and Ngaio at Nelson have been sold for scrapping. The Ngaio was formerly the Union Company's steamer Mapourika and she ran for many years in the WellingtonWest Coast passenger service before she was sold to the Anchor Shipping and Foundry Company, Nelson. She is a vessel of 1203 tons and she was built at Dumbarton, Scotland, in IS9B. The Regulus was also one of the Anchor Company's steamers. Her tonnage was 584 g£oss and she was built at New-castle-on-Tyne in 1907.
The Calm was a steamer of 891 tons and was built at Sunderland in 1909. She was first owned by fi Norwegian Company and traded between European ports. Later she was sold for use in the River Plato and eventually she was bought by the Canterbury Steam Shipping Company which employed her in South Island coast service until 1933, when she was withdrawn from commission.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22403, 27 April 1936, Page 12
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