A Five- Masted Sailing Ship.
The preference of shipowners for large /cargo carrying vessels is becoming more and more pronounced, and. the companies more particularly engaged in the part of the shipping, trade in which sailing 'ships are, worked seem to vie with each other in securing c the'largest ship afloat. I Intima-' tion is made this' week that a contract has been placed on behalf of Messrs -Afatl Dom. Bordes and Son /Paris and Bordeaux,' with a firm on the Clyde, who make the'building of sailing ships a specialty,' for the construction of a five-masted steel sailing ship to carry 6,000 tons deadweight. ' Not' only will this be thefirst'fiye-master, but it will* be* the largest' sailing vessel afloat. — ' Engineering.' t ' ' y ' ' ,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 3
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150A Five-Masted Sailing Ship. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 380, 26 June 1889, Page 3
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