NEW LAKE STEAMER
TO BE BUILT AT DUNEDIN. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Night. John McGregor and Co., Otago foundry, have been notified that they have secured the contract for the construction of a new steamer for the Lake Wa'katipu ser;vice. Tne vessel will be erected in the firm's yard at Dunedin, and" then dismantled and railed to Kingston, and after being re-erected, launched there. The order for plates, angles and raw material will be sent Home almost immediately. The vessel will be of steel, about 250 tons, with two sets of triple-expansion engines, capable oi developing ll&il-h.p., and a maximum speed of I<s knots. She will be capable of carrying from HKM to 1500 passengers. It is expected that the vessel will be ready for commission in a little over a year from the signing of the coii tract.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19101019.2.51
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 163, 19 October 1910, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
140NEW LAKE STEAMER Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 163, 19 October 1910, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in