OLD CARGO STEAMERS

Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 30

OLD CARGO STEAMERS

PURCHASED BY EASTERN COMPANY. WELLINGTON, June 12. Two more of the Union Company’s old cargo steamers, the Kaituna and the Kamona, have been sold to the East. Both vessels have been bought by C a P* tain S. T. Williamson, of Messrs Willianson and Co., shipowners, Hongkong-, Captain Williamson has now purchased a considerable number of the Union Company’s older cargo steamers. He has visited Wellington several times for thia purpose in the past few years, the most recent occasion being in February last year, when he purchased the Kaitangata and the Kaiapoi. Another Union Company steamer purchased by him last year was the Kamo, which had been laid up in Sydney. Captain Williamson will arrive in Wellington from Sydney next Monday by the Makura to complete the purchase and to make arrangements to take his new ships out to the East. Other old Union Company ships now running under the Williamson flag are the Koromiko, the Karori, the Kittawa, and the Whangape. The Kaituna and the Kamona, which were very well known on the New Zealand coast and were usually engaged in the coal trade, have both been laid up for some time past, the Kaituna at Auckland and the Kamona at Port Chalmers. The Kaituna is a steel single screw steamer of 2042 tons gross and 1246 tons net. She was built in 1904 by Osborne Graham and Co., Sunderland, and her principal dimensions are: Length 279.5 ft, breadth 40.1 ft, and depth 18.1 ft. r The Kamona is also a steel single screw steamer. She was built at Grangemouth in 1901 by the Grangemouth and Greenock Dockyard Company. She has a gross tonnage of 1425 and a net tonnage of 903. Her principal dimensions are: Length 245 ft, breadth 26.1 ft, depth 16ft.