FOR THE EAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 394, 30 June 1928, Page 2

FOR THE EAST

WELL-KNOWN TRADERS SOLD WHANGAPE, WAIPORI, KARORI Having passed their period of usefulness in the Hew Zealand trade, three cargo steamers. Whangape, Waiporiand Karori. have been sold by the Union Steam Ship Co.. Ltd., to Eastern buyers, states the "Dominion.” The two firstnamed have been tied up at Auckland and the Karori at Wellington for some months. It is understood that Chinese crews are on their way to the Dominion to man the ships, which will depait shortly for their respective destinations. The oldest and probably the best known of the trio is the Whangape which has carried many thousands of tons cf coal from Newcastle to New Zealand during the last 28 years. The Whangape was built at Middlesbro' in 1900 by Sir Roylton Dixon and Co.. Ltd. She «»■' originally named Ariadne and later Asaba. but before she left the builders hands was purchased by the t i ion Company. She left England in March. 1. . and called at Table Hay and Durban on her way out to Sydney, where sne - rived in July of that year. Her first commander when she entered the interccdonial trade was the late Captata J- - Courbai-ron. Since 1900 the has been employed chiefly in South trade between Newcastle New South Wales, and New Zealand P°rts* V* Whaneane is a single-screw cargo steamer of 2.931 tons gross and 1901 tons ne The eS Walpori. a steamer of 1.976 tons gross register, was built la_M°l by the Campbeltown Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. at Campbeltown, Scotland, for the Umber trade between New Zealand remain V tralia. Under the command ofCaptainai. Irvine, who brought a numberofne* steamers out to New Zealand, including the Anchor Company's Waimea in l*» • the Waipori left Britain on April 4. l_t b and proceeded via PeUg°a Bas » Mauritius to Newcastle, N f"' S S“„, Wales, where she loaded coal for Zealand. During the last -7 y«r» . Waipori has been variously emptojedln the Newcastle-New Zealand coal truth, the intercolonial timber trade and the New Zealand coastal trade. . The Karori was built by Craig. * a "' and Co. at Stockton-on-Tees and launched in February. 1901 as the _M.na She was purchased the following by the Union Company and renamed ori. Sailing from West Hartlepool on July 27, 1903, she arrived at Sydney o. October 2, and was placed in the intercolonial coal and timber trade h< r nr.v commander being the late Captain JTwo other Union cargo ships laid at Wellington are the turret de K steamer Koromiko. which has been swinging at an anchorage off K.-inurnl for the last 12 months, and the Kittavnb which has taken the place of the scuttle Rakanoa as a store ship. The Kittawa was bu, lt -0 Jeans ag. at Sunderland and launched as the Gtoj terliill She was purchased by Ju umo Company, who employed her for many years in the West f east coal and timber The Koromiko is 2! years of a f e ' ine been built in 1907 by W. Doxford and Pons, Ltd . at Sunderland for *be CntoJ ComDanv She has been employed Chiefly in the Newcastle »nd coal trades. Her future fate has not yet been dec