New Guinea Vessel

“Desikoko" is Launched

THE second of the two wooden vessels of 200 tons, built at Jervis Bay, N.S.W., for the inter-island trade by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., was launched in Currembene Creek, Jervis Bay, at the end of May, and was loaded with timber, ready to be towed to Sydney, where engines will be installed.

There was a heavy fresh in the creek, and as the vessel was being towed out into Jervis Bay, she grounded on a sand bank, and remained fast. She remained there for several days, but eventually was towed off undamaged and arrived in Syd ney on June 10.

The vessel is called the “Desikoko” (presumably as a compliment to Desi koko Ltd., which handles the product of W. R. Carpenter’s desiccated coconut factory at Pondo, New Guinea) and she is now being equipped with diesel engines and will sail shortly for New Guinea witn a cargo of timber. She is 120 feet in length and is constructed of Australian hardwood.

It is a coincidence that the Desikoko’s sister ship, the John Bolton, almost exactly a year before, was involved in a collision in Sydney Harbour, just after she had been equipped with engines and was undergoing the usual trials. The John Bolton is now engaged in the New Guinea inter-island trade.