NEW PHOSPHATE SHIP
The latest addition to the fleet of the British Phosphate Commission, the 7611-ton motor-ship, Triadic, will arrive at Auckland this week with phosphate from Nauru Island. The Triadic, which is making her first visit to New Zealand, was formely the Carpenter Line’s Levuka, registered at Suva. She was purchased a few months ago. . The Levuka was laid down in Vancouver toward the end of the war for the Admiralty, and was acquired last year by W. R- Carpenter Overseas Shipping. Ltd., for the Pacific cargo trade. Her new name perpetuates that of the commission’s motor-ship Triadic, which was sunk by a raider off Naru in December, 1940. . Tn this attack the commission also lost the Triona and Triaster, and only one of its fleet of four, the Trienza, survived the war. The new Triona was built at Glasgow in 1943 and the new Triadic will bring the fleets strength to three.
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Grey River Argus, 6 August 1948, Page 5
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