OLD MATSON VESSELS
SALE TO SHIPBREAKERS, Three American steamers, the Sierra, Sonoma, and Venture, have been sold to Japanese shipbreakers. The vessels were built in America in 1900 specially for the San Francisco, New Zealand, and Australian passenger and mail service. After seven years Auckland was omitted from the ports of call, and the vessels 4 proceeded from Suva to Sydney. . In 1931 the owners, the Matson Line, revised the itinerary so that the vessels proceeded from Suva to Auckland and '■ then to Sydney., T>vo yea r a later they were replaced by the 19,000 tons liners Mariposa and Monterey, which, being faster steamers, were able to continue the voyage from Sydney to Melbourne, now the terminal port in Australia. Since being withdrawn from service, the old vessels have been laid up at San Francisco. The Ventura’s gross tonnage is 5686, the Sonoma’s 5985, and the. Sierra’s 6023.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22326, 28 July 1934, Page 15
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