WRECKED
MISSION STEAMER
ON MAIDEN VOYAGE.
(Per Press Association — Copyright.)
VILA, November 9. The Melanesian Mission steamer Southern Cross has been lost on 1 the Island of Aneitum, on her maiden voyage from Auckland to to South Seas.
Full details to-morrow,: says the correspondent. ; ! V
PARTICULARS OF THE VESSEL.
AUCKLAND, -November 10,
The Southern Cross was built at tho Isle of Wight at a cost of about £25,000, acd had a carrying capacity of ©9 tons. She left England on July 29, under' Contain W. J. Ch©llow, who/ on arrival at Auckland, handed over the command to Captain A. Mi Stanton, who was appointed in-. England, and had come out by passenger ship/ Captain Stanton was a comparatively-> young m'an, and was a member of Mawson’s Antarctic- expedition last year He had spent -about four yearsin the Islands on trading vessels. • The Southern Cross which is the sixth Melanesian ship to bear that name carried a crew of twelve Islanders. Her officers are Messrs J. Scott, chief; R. Holmes, second; A. S. .Me.-* Gregor and G. R. Newton, engineers. -' Other European members of the complement are O. D. Wilkes, Jaunchtfian, and H. RolertSj.oook. 1 : A
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1932, Page 4
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