THE NEW TUG CANTERBURY
A Press Association messagesays: The Lyttelton Harbour, * Board's new powerful steam tug Canterbury arrived at Lyttelton yesterday morning,- after n remarkably good passage of 69$ day? from Glasgow. The - Canterbury, which was built by Messrs Ferguson Bros., of . Port Glasgow, is a steel twin-screw vessel of 300 tons gross register*” She As 115 ft in length,. 25ft in beam, and 14ft Sin in moulden depth, and is fitted with two sets of compound engines, with cylinders . 20in and iOin in diameter respectively, with a piston stroke of STiu. Steam • • supplied from a large boiler lift in diameter. The Lyttelton Harbour Board is to take delivery of the new tug at the wharf, her coft-delivered there } yy , ing : 7 . ' : :
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6311, 11 September 1907, Page 9
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122THE NEW TUG CANTERBURY New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 6311, 11 September 1907, Page 9
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