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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 26, 30 December 1908, Page 48

The oil engines in the barque-rigged auxiliary yacht Modwena have done excellently in service, and the results seem to justify nil experiment of the same kind on a considerably larger scale, says a Home newspaper. The statement is made, in fact, by people who ought to know, that auxiliary motor-power is practicable now for trading sailing vessels up to 700 tons. This is, of course, some way off the tonnage of the average ocean-going trading ship. Still, the progress it represents is encouraging, and already it puts the coasting business of the United Kingdom on a now footing, j