THE AUSTRAL.
The “Family World” of May 20th 1882, has the following paragraph, which reads curiously at the present time. It is headed, “No More Shipwrecks ’’ : The new Australian passenger steamship belonging to the Orient Company, and christened the Austral, is so constructed that at short notice she . can be turned into a powerful fighting cruiser. Her null is so built that bales of com s pressed wool could be stowed between her inner and outer “ skins” right round the ship, thus affording an admirably efficient armour,- easy of adaptation, while her machinery can be doubly protected, by layers of coal several feet thick, which can be stored both for use and for defence in the bunkers on each side of the steamer’s “ vital spot,” The ship is so constructed that it is practically impossible to either sink or born her —two points which cannot fail to make her a favorite with the continuous stream of passengers between England and the Australian Colonies.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3016, 27 November 1882, Page 3
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163THE AUSTRAL. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3016, 27 November 1882, Page 3
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