MOTOR SURF BOAT
CONSTRUCTION IN AUCKLAND SERVICE AT NAURU ISLAND (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND. June 15. Built for the passenger and mail service between steamers in the roadstead at Nauru Island and the shore, a fast 28-foot motor boat will be launched from the yards of Messrs Codings and Bell in the next few days. The boat, which is to the order of the British Phosphate Commission, is of unusual design and construction. It is to negotiate the surf-bound gap in the reef, and when not in use is to be hoisted in davits near the loading cantilever. To minimise the risk of swamping, the craft is divided by tranverse watertight bulkheads into four compartments, the forward one for mails, the next for the helmsman, the third for the engine, and the after one for the accommodation of about a dozen passengers. The craft is of exceptionally strong construction, and will have a speed of about 16 knots. The new boat will be taken to Nauru Island shortly in one of the commission’s phosphate ships.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23527, 16 June 1938, Page 12
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