PANAMA TANKER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22877, 4 November 1937, Page 12

PANAMA TANKER

CARGO OF SPIRIT SHABONEE FOR AUCKLAND VESSEL DUE THIS MORNING Flying the flag of the Republic of Panama, the oil-tanker Shabonee will arrive at Auckland this morning from Lyttelton to complete discharge *of a cargo of motor-spirit from Palembang and Oeban. The Shabonee, which will berth at Western Wharf, has previously visited Auckland as the Laurel, under which name she was launched at Glasgow in 3930. Her name was changed to Shabonee in 1934, when she was registered at Panama, and a further cosmopolitan flavour is given her through the fact that she is under charter to the Standard Oil Company, New York, and is manned by a Norwegian crew.

Although the flag of Panama has been shown at Auckland by a number of ships, the merchant marine of the republic is not large. Merchant ships registered in Panama now number 114, with a net tonnage of 306,687, and a gross tonnage of 532,576. A report issued recently stated that 23 ships had registered since the beginning of this year and had brought into the Panama national treasury nearly £II,OOO in registration fees. THORHILD'S CHARTER ENDS 16 CARGOES IN TWO YEARS [BY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] WELLINGTON, Wednesday

Nearing the close of a two. years' time charter in carrying fuel for the Union Steam Ship Company, the Norwegian tanker Thorhild sailed this morning for San Pedro-, California, after completing discharge of her 16th cargo at Wellington. The Thorhild will bo delivered to her owners at San Pedro, and it is understood that she has been taken up on a four years' time charter to carry cargoes of fuel oil from that port to Japan.

Since her first arrival here in November, 1935, the Thorhild has delivered 16 cargoes of fuel oil, totalling approximately 224,000 tons. In her voyagings to Wellington she has travelled more than 175,000 sea miles. Before the Thorhild finally left port a number of friends presented her master, Captain Tellefsen, with a statuette of a Maori Avarrior carved in New Zealand wood.