NEW CARGO SHIPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26200, 10 July 1946, Page 4

NEW CARGO SHIPS

UNION COMPANY’S FLEET WAITEMATA AND KOMATA The Auckland office of the Union Steam Ship Company has announced the purchase by the company of a 7000-ton steamer which is being completed at the Vancouver yards of the Burrard Dry Dock Company, Ltd. The new ship, which will be named Waitemata, will be ready for service in September and will be commanded by Captain W. Whitefield, formerly commander of the liner Aorangi, who will leave Auckland by air for North America next week. The Waitemata is similar in construction to the Waiherr.o. Wairuna. Waitomo and Waikawa. and will run in the trans-Pacific cargo service with her sister ships. The company has chosen Komata as the name for an intercolonial cargo ship which will be completed at Alexander Stephens. Ltd.’s, Glasgow yards in September. In naming the latest two additions to its fleet Waitemata and Komata, the Union Company has preserved two well-known company names. The last Waitemata was sold to Japanese buyers in-1933 after 11 years’ service in the Union Company's Eastern and transpacific trades and two years’ idleness at Auckland. The previous Komata was built in 1938 and was destroyed by the German raider Orion of! Nauru Island in 1940.