TO BE BROKEN UP

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 255, 18 January 1928, Page 1

TO BE BROKEN UP

FATE OF KURNALPI OLD STEAMED PASSES Yet another of the old vessels have adorned the “Rotten How'’ of the Waitemata Harbour jjr many months has fallen into y* hands of the ship-breakers. The is to be towed to Julian’s Wall this afternoon to be •■'.•mantled, after which the hull will probably be sunk in deep wster.

Some months ago, Mr. S. Appleton, ®*?hinery and timber merchant, of Street. Newmarket, bought the from her former owners, the Pany m airoa Steam Shipping Comurnalpl was for many years a ‘-Known vessel around the northern 2 , °* the North Island of New tin? 3 *Itra 1 tra< ding regularly between y**s4ville, Hokianga and other northh» 5 0rts and Auckland. Those were , days when the Northern Wairoa ucern was a flourishing company, vessels carried a great deal of and many passengers on the of the Far orth . lean times were to follow, and jL* n company ceased operations at two years ago there was no more •j.. *J. r the old Kurnalpi. She entered waitemata last on August 8, 1926, not leave it again till she is eq out to sea to be sunk in deep w hcre so many of Auckland’s «ionc old vessels find their last restPlace. J* *• Mr. Appleton’s intention to rethe ironwork and machinery vessel which is of any value. ■> * a *bout two months’ time, he says, hm,®, be little more than the bare *?“■ A charge or two of dynamite *2.' 4° the rest. W? Kurn *lpi was built in 1905 by Jrr 5 ' Akers Mek. Vaerks, Limited, cpouilders, of Oslo, and was formerly M the Heina. She is registered wo tons gross. 298 tons net, and lyj’tbtvipal dimensions are:—Length. •itLi adth 23ft. depth 13ft. She is vessel, and had 52 h.p. engines.