Southern Cross Vi.

New Missionary Ship.

THE new ship of the Melanesian Mis sion, the Southern Cross VI., will commence her work shortly in the Pacific Islands. She left the Thames in July, to proceed directly to Auck land, where the new Bishop of Mela nesia will join her.

Southern Cross VI. is a two-screw motor vessel and has been designed with the assistance of Sir Fortescue Flannery, the greatest of living naval architects and in consultation with the engineering firm of Flannery, Bogga blay and Johnson. She is built of wood and steel construction, with an over all length of 106 feet and a gross ton nage of 215 tons.

The main propelling machinery con sists of two Gardner heavy-oil engines, capable of producing a speed of nine knots.

This vessel was built at the cost of £25,000 by Messrs. J. Samuel White & Co. at Cowes, England. This money has been given by friends of the Mis sion in England.

Captain A. M. Stanton, who was the Chief Officer of the Mawson Antarctic Expedition, has been appointed master of the new schooner which left Eng land on Friday, July 29, on her 12,000

miles voyage to Auckland, New Zea land.

The Rev. W. H. Baddeley, vicar of South Bank, Yorkshire, England, has been appointed Bishop of Melanesia, and it is expected that he will arrive in the Islands towards the end of the year. Mr. Baddeley served in the War, receiving the M.C. in 1917, to which a bar was added in 1918, in which year he was also awarded the D.S.O. He joined up as a private -and finished as a Colonel. —R. P. Fallowes.

The dedication of the “Southern Cross” at Greenwich, England, by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Photo by courtesy of the “Daily Telegraph."