On the Beach at Vila

S.S. Makambo

A FTER considerable investigation, Messrs. Burns, Philp and Co., Ltd., decided that it was not possible to repair the S.S. Makambo, 1,100 tons, which has been running in the B.P. service for about 28 years. The Makambo, latterly, had been carrying on the inter-island ser vice in the New Hebrides, but had de veloped a need for overhaul and repairs.

The Makambo has now been put up on the beach at Vila, and probably will re main there. All her equipment is still aboard, under care of a watchman.

The S.S. Mirani, of about 650 tons, was brought from New Guinea to Vila in October, in charge of a temporary crew, and has taken the place of the Makambo in the New Hebrides run.

The Mirani was brought from Rabaul to Vila by Messrs. Hilderbrand (captain), Holder (mate), Mulcahy (second mate), Ferris (chief engineer), and Morgan (second engineer), and a crew of New Guinea boys. The Makambo’s officers and crew took over in Vila, and the men from the Mirani lived on the Makambo for a few weeks, until they could get passage to Sydney.

The old Makambo, as she now rests on the beach at Vila, New Hebrides.