Schooner Launched In
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Tahiti
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Papeete, Oct. 18.
SHIPBUILDING has been for many years an important industry at Papeete. The major number of inter island vessels now navigating the waters of French Oceania have been built in local ship yards.
The latest construction has been the handsome schooner “Vaitere”, built for
the Cie Francaise Maratime de Tahiti by the Chantier Leprado.
This vessel has been constructed to re place the historic schooner “Vaite”, which was wrecked in the Tuamotu Archipelago.
October 18, 1939.
The “Vaitere” was launched, with traditional ceremonies, on October 10, 1940. Mademoiselle Leprado, daughter of the constructor, christened the schooner after the ancient manner, in the pre sence of a distinguished company.
The vessel’s length over-all is 104 feet, beam 25 feet and depth 10 feet. Esti mated cargo capacity, 120 tons of copra.
It is equipped with two Atlas Imperial full diesel engines, each 75 hp.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Johnson, of Edie Creek, New Guinea, spent furlough in Victoria in November. He is mill superintendent for New Guinea Goldfields, Ltd.
Mr. H. F. Ayson, Resident Commis sioner at Rarotonga, who has been in poor health for some months, left with Mrs. Ayson for New Zealand in October, on sick leave.
The new schooner “Vaitere.”