FREIGHTER WAITEMATA
SOLD TO MELBOURNE FIRM
The Union Steam Ship Company's cargo steamer Waitemata, which has been laid up in Auckland Harbour for some time, has beer.: purchased by ,the William Crosby and Company Proprietary, 'Melbourne. The Waitemata, which has a tonnage' of 5729 (gross) and 3555 (net), was built for the Union Company in 1919 at the yards of the Northumberland Shjpbuild.ng Co Ltd. Her principal dimensions are: Length, 400 ft; breadth o3ft; depth, 32.8 ft. The Waitemata came out from Home via the Suez Canal, Singapore and Sydney, under the command of iovl ellcll ? alni' and arrived at Auckland on 19th September, 1919. Although at times she was transferred to other services she was principally engaged in the transpacific cargo trade until she was laid up at Al' <; klaiHl °n, sth August, 1930. ihe Waitemata is the second member of the Union Company's fleet to bear that name, her predecessor, a steamer of 5432 tons built in 1908, having been sunk by a German torpedo in the Mediterranean Sea on 14th July, 1918. The new owners of the Waitemata are a well-known Australian firm of general merchants and steamship agents.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 14
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192FREIGHTER WAITEMATA Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 14
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