TASMAN LINERS.
TIMES FOR THE TRIP. CAPTAINS INTERVIEWED. Received August 10, 8.5 a.m. SYDNEY, Aug. 9. The Sun reports that the Awatea’s passage across the Tasman occupied 63 hours 40 minutes and the Monterey’s 62 hours 15 minutes. The Monterey’s best time is 57 hours 53 minutes, an average speed of 22.06 knots.
Captain Johanson, of the Monterey, in an interview, said: “Oh no, - we were not racing. The speed of my ship is 205 knots unless there are good reasons why it should be more, and 1 do not know of any. '
Captain Davey, of the Awatea. in an interview, said: “I was in communication with Captain Johanson of the Monterey many times during the voyage. I have never met Captain Jolianson. He always signed his messages ‘Aloha, Johanson.’ I was not going to allow him to get away with Hawaiian like that, so I signed mine ‘Kia Ora, Davey,’ and thus gave lxim a bit of Maori.
“We had a fast run to the North Cape, and maintained 225 knots till we turned the corner, where we had to fight a severe blow. The seas were thirty feet across the hows, and the storm lasted sixteen hours. We gained speed on Sunday when the weather was finer. Throughout the trip we averaged 205 knots. We slowed down at 4.40 a.nv. to-day, as we were not needed at the wharf until 8.10 a.m.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7
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