TURAKINA LOST.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7921, 21 August 1917, Page 3

TURAKINA LOST.

ON RETURN TO NEW ZEALAND.

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON, Last night.

The Government has been advised that the New Zealand Shipping Company's Turakina was sunk on her return journey to the Dominion. Several lives were lost. CHRISTCHURCH, Last night.

Advices received here state that the Turakina was sunk on Monday on her voyage from London to New York, having safely landed her New Zealand Reinforcements in Great Britain. The casualties were the loss of two trimmers and a baker out of a total complement of about a hundred men. Some years ago, when at Rio de Janeiro, the Turakina was seriously damaged by fire, and was then practically gutted. She was re-fitted at very great expense, and had only lately been diverted by the Imperial authorities from the England-New Zealand trade to cargo trips from America to Britain.

The Turakina was commanded by Captain C. White-Parsons, a cousin of Captain H. ‘ White-Parsons, harbormaster at Napier.

The Turakina was a twin screw steel steamer of 8349 tons net register, fitted with refrigerating machinery, electric light and wireless. She was built in 1902, by Hawthorn, Leslie, and Co., Ltd., of Newcastle, for the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd. Her length was 473 feet, breadth 59 feet 6 inches, and depth 31 feet.