BOUGHT BY JAPAN
STEAMER LOONOANA
MELBOURNE, Sept. 7
Negotiations fori the sale- of the veteran Bass Strait passenger liner Loongftna, 2448 tons, to Japanese buyers have been completed, and the vessel will leave for the East next month.
The I.oongana, which was owned by Tasmanian Steamers t'ty.. Limited, has been laid up at Melbourne for 18 months. She. was withdrawn from the Pass Strait service with the. arrival of the Taroona. When she was built in Dumbarton, [Scotland, in 1904, the Loongana was largely an experimental ship. She was the first turbine steamer to be built ror the Australian coastal service. She was always one of the fastest vessels in the Australian trade. On her trials she logged 20 knots c fortably. Her greatest run was achieved many years ago (luring the fires and explosions at the Mount I.yell minis. Tasmania. Carrying firemen, gas masks, and tire-'fighfing equipment, the l-oongana went," to the assistance, and through fierce gales she averaged 20 knots on the passage from Melbourne to Burnie.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 15
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