NEW MOTOR-VESSEL
LAUNCHING TO-DAY WANGANUI LIGHTERING Built fo;r lightering work at Wanganui, the 98ft. Diesel-engined vessel Kaiwhaka is to be launched from the yards of W. G. Lowe and Son at Freeman's Bay this morning at 9 o'clock. She has been built to the order of the New Zealand Refrigerating Company for the transport of frozen produce, and as a protection against the stress to which she will be subjected when, working to ships outside the bar of the Wanganui River she has been specially braced with diagonal framing. In addition she will be used to tow barges and when she leares Auckland in February she will have in tow a barge which is also being built by the same .firm. The Kaiwhaka has a beam of 23ft. and a depth of 10ft. Her underdeck tonnage is about 150, and she will register just under 100 tons net. Her power will be supplied by a 150 horsepower Diesel engine. The christening ceremony will be performed by Mrs. T. F. Lowe and the owners will be represented by Mr. J. W. Dow, Wanganui works manager.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22916, 20 December 1937, Page 10
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