OPAWA SOLD
TO BE CONVERTED INTO WHALING FACTORY By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.26 a.m. LONDON, Thurs. The New Zealand Shipping Company’s steamer Opawa has been sold for £20,000 to a Norwegian firm for conversion into a whaling factory.—A. and N.Z. The Opawa has been a regular trader between Australia and New Zealand ever since she was buiult in 1906. During the war she was a troopship. She was built in 1906 by Denny and Brothers, of Dumbarton, for the New Zealand Shipping Company. She is a steel twin-screw steamer, with a registered tonnage of 9,306 tons, a length of 460 ft and a breadth of 60ft.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 275, 10 February 1928, Page 9
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107OPAWA SOLD Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 275, 10 February 1928, Page 9
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