NEW ISLANDS SHIP
Maui Pomare’s Replacement
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, April 26. Within three months, the Marine Department will call for tenders from overseas shipbuilders for a new vessel to replace the island trading vessel Maui Pomare. Plans are now being drawn for a motor-vessel able to carry 1000 tons of refrigerated cargo and 40 passengers. The ship will have twin screws, amble equipment for loading and discharging heavy cargo in a seaway and additional space for internal and deck stowage of non-refrigerated cargo. As the new ship is to be used exclusively in the service of the Island Territories Department, specifications are being worked out to give maximum efficiency in the run between Rarotonga and New Zealand. It is believed the new vessel will be more than 2000 tons gross. No exact assessment of gross tonnage can yet be made, but a departmental spokesman said the new ship would be “at least half as big again as the Maui Pomare but somewhat smaller than the Matua.” The gross tonnages of the Maui Pomare and the Matua are 1211 and 4520 respectively. The new vessel which will have a Polynesian name may be in service within three yea?s. There is no possibility of the Maui Pomare, the only trading vessel in Government service, being granted a certificate of seaworthiness beyond that time without an expenditure which would be prohibitive.
When the new vessel enters the service the Maui Pomare will be sold.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10
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243NEW ISLANDS SHIP Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28262, 27 April 1957, Page 10
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