The Oceanic Steamship Company’s new liner Mariposa was launched last month. Her length is 632ft, beam 70ft, gross tonnage 22,000, and her speed 20½ knots. The first photograph shows her leaving the slipway, and in the second she is afloat in the care of tugs.
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Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 40
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45The Oceanic Steamship Company’s new liner Mariposa was launched last month. Her length is 632ft, beam 70ft, gross tonnage 22,000, and her speed 20½ knots. The first photograph shows her leaving the slipway, and in the second she is afloat in the care of tugs. Otago Witness, Issue 4041, 25 August 1931, Page 40
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