SOLD TO THE EAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 859, 31 December 1929, Page 16

SOLD TO THE EAST

UNION VESSELS KAIAPOI AND KAITANGATA DELIVERY NEXT MONTH The Uniou Company has sold two of its best-known cargo steamers, the Kaiapoi and Kaitangata, to Eastern , buyers, a British company at HongKong, which will take delivery of both vessels at Wellington about the end of January. The Kaiapoi and Kaitangata are practically sister ships. They were built by Alessrs. Osborne, Graham and Company, Sunderland, the Kaiapoi in 1906 ,and the Kaitangata in 1907. The former’s engines were manufactured by the N.E. Marine Engineering Company, Sunderland, and the latter’s by Messrs. G. Clark, Ltd., Sunderland. The Kaiapoi’s principal dimensions are: 2,003 tons gross, 1,247 tons net; length, 279.2 ft; j beam, 40.1 ft; depth, 18.1 ft. The Kaitangata’s are: 2,005 tons gross, 1,195 s tons net; length, 279.5 ft; beam, 40.21't; depth, IS.lft. During the last quarter of a century much of the Union Company’s obsolete tonnage has been sold to Eastern buyers and the ships have taken a new lease of life in trading on the Chinese coast and in other parts of the Orient. About a year ago the Union Company thus disposed of the Koromiko, Karori and Kittawa. The Kaiapoi and Kaitangata are being replaced by the new up-to-date colliers Kaimiro and Karepo.