A Year In A Sydney Dock
p. 73 · Read in the full issue
THE 400-ton Island ship Awahou which made the headlines in June 1950, when she was feared lost in a hurri cane between the Solomons and Sydney, is just about to emerge from a dock in Sydney where she has been undergoing repairs to damage sustained on that voyage.
Her owners, the Carr Shipping and Trading Co., said that it was expected that she would be in dock 13 weeks —but with
shortage of materials, strikes, bad weather and other misfortunes it has taken a year.
Her owners say that she will be “like new." Her former skipper and crew will sail in her and her first trip will be to Samarai, Papua.
An RAAF “steak and eggs” special plane landed at Honiara on June 18, en route to Noumea. Warned of the local fresh food shortage, the aircraft unloaded 220 lbs. of fresh meat, a case of eggs and some fresh butter.