SOLD TO SHIPBREAKERS
NGAIO AND REGULUS
ANCHOR COMPANY VESSELS (Per Proas Association.) NELSON, this day. The Anchor Shipping Company has sold the steamers Ngaio and Regulus to i F. E Jackson and Company, Auckland., shiphreakers. For a long time negotia-, tions were in progress for the purchase. ot the for conversion into a house- J boat for the Sounds, but those negotia-' tions lapsed. , The Ngaio. 1205 tons, formerly the! Union Steam Ship Company s Map"ii | rika was built in 1393 for the West Coast trade. On her fifth voyage to the Coast, she nearly became a viction ( \f the Grey Bar. A blind roller lifted hei stern out of the water and carried the vessel broadside on to the north tip. Shv.-vc problems presented themselves in relaunching the vessel. Eventually a cradle was built, round the vessel, the breakwater cut through and the, vessel was taken to the other side. The Mapourika was stranded again in 1900 on Mabel Island, near i’icton. In 1921 the vessel was purchased by the Anchor Shipping Company for the Wcllington-Nelson service. She has been tied up since 1930. The Regulus, 584 tons, was one of the company’s freighters for many_ years. Formerly site belonged to the \\ estport Coal Company. She has been laid up for several years.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18763, 20 July 1935, Page 5
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