THE WHALING FLEET.
A NOTABLE ADDITION. 20,000-TON FACTORY SHIP. {Per United Press Association.* , WELLINGTON, June 10. A remarkable addition to the fleet of Norwegian whalers operating from New Zealand in the Ross Sea will be a new 20,000-ton palagic factory ship, the Sir James Clark Ross, which is being built by the Eosshavet Whaling Company to replace the old 9000-ton converted ship of that name, which pioneered operations in Ross' Sea in 1923-20, and which, after making seven voyages to that part of the Antarctic, has been sold to another whaling company. The new Sir James Clark Ross, which is being, built by the Furness Shipbuilding Company, Ltd., of Havcrton Hill-on-Tees, was launched at the beginnin" of last month. °
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 10
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119THE WHALING FLEET. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21054, 17 June 1930, Page 10
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