NEW TRANING SHIP.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3390, 20 January 1920, Page 7

NEW TRANING SHIP.

TO REPLACE AMO L'l{L’R.:\

For more than two §'ezll's now the, G'oV€l'lllllollt tmiiiing-ship Amoukura has not been to sea, 50 that the I'l';lin. ing that the boys have had to iit them for a sea-going life has been of neeex. sity given to them aslrore, 01' on board the vessel anchored in the K:li\\'al'l':l Bight. The ship did go to sea once upon :1. time with the boys, but for some two years it. has not been considered that the Vessel is seaworthy. The Government and the boys themselves have ‘badly wanted a new ship for long‘ time, and -on the last occasion when he was in England Ml‘ Massey arrmiged with the :\dlnirzll~iy to let New Zealand lmve a suitable 11':1ining ship.

Cuptziin. Hooper, of the .£Xnlol(m'u, wmif. Home to make :1 s<‘loction of the \'(‘S.\"()ls ofl’Ql'od by the Adniil'alty, and to bring the ship out. H 0 has So— H. M. S. Sapplniro, a Vvssel launchoxl in 190-}. She is a pycite-(_-rod cruiser of 3000 tons, 3130 foul. in longtli, 40ft. 5.03.111. I~}»‘_.ff. (11-zmglit, and 10,200 indicated llm'.<<-—po\V('l‘. The ship’s o‘_‘ig‘lllill spowll was 22-._‘. liners, but as a. 3-poe(l of H lmofs will be ample for her pln?pnsv.< as :1 I'l-:lin'mg' ship, the indicntcal llol'So-]1()\\'("1' {van be rediicwl 1))‘ the ron1m':1l of sonm of the boilers. ‘Some 011101‘ -.lltm'{l’rions will have to be made in the ship to‘ [it l}.‘l' l’Ci' her new purposes.

The Sapphire will probably nor. be in ‘C:‘\\' Zcalnnd \\':ltol‘s for tlll'oo4nlontlls