HER LAST VOYAGE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 10

HER LAST VOYAGE.

END OF THE MARAROA. TO BE SCUTTLED IN COOK STRAIT, (Peii United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November 29, , > ery shortly the Union Company's passenger steamer Mararoa will join the same company as the Corinna, which was ecnttled in Cook Strait a few weeks ago. The Mararoa has been lying into the stream at Wellington, out of commission, for the* last three years. When the Union Ccmpanys recently-purchased liner Monowai arrived from Bombay, the Mararoa was moved alongside her, and many of her saloon fittings were removed for use in the third class in the new liner. The Mararoa s oil-burning installation has also been removed and refitted in the Waipiata, and the once.-famous old shin is now merely a shell, and will be towed round to the patent slip to-day to have what remains of value on board removed Prior to her last short voyage. r>» '5. 1885 by W. Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, for the Union Company, the Mararoa is a steel single-screw steamer of 2598 tons gross and 1329 tons 5": principal measurements are: Length 320 ft, breadth 42£t, depth 24.7 ft. xr« r Sydney from Home on November 26, 1885, the Mararoa entered the San Francisco mail service, and a short time later the Australian-New ZeaT a vtliff V w-ii- Ir l 1996 6he ent ered the elhngton ferry service', and with the exception of two or three short breaks, when she was doing service in Australian waters, continued in the in P Junt 1927 e r y Steamer tiU hcr last tri P