NEW STEAMER KOROWAI
MAIDEN VOYAGE COMMENCED [by telegraph—own correspondent] WELLINGTON, Thursday Cabled advice has been received by the Union Steam Ship Company that their new steamer Korowai, which was launched on May 2 from the Linthouse, Glasgdw, yards of Alexander Stephen and Sons, Limited, carried out successful trials on June 3.
The Korowai is a single-screw coalburning steamer intended for the intercolonial coul and general cargo trade, and is designed for a service speed of 10 knots. Her dimensions are: Length b.p., 290 ft.; breadth, 45ft.; moulded depth, 21ft. 9in.; and gross tonnage, 25(30 tons. She left Glasgow on Saturday, June 4, for Cardiff to load coal for Port Said, thence to Safaga Bay, in the lied Sea, to load phosphates for Wellington, via Bunbury, and is due here about August 12. Captain F. W. Collins is in command.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23060, 10 June 1938, Page 6
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