Suva Builds Another
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82 Ft Ship
For Co-op. Society in G & E
[pHIS handy little ship (82 ft long, 1 22 ft beam, 8 ft draft) was built by Charles Whippy and So., of Suva, and launched in tfarch. She is the
;.ixth of her class; !;he will run at 10 mots under a 204 hp Ruston Hornsby diesel; Jie will have two Auxiliaries for ight, etc.; she has i>een named Te Vlatapula; and he shows what an now be done n shipbuilding in !uva. She will be ;etch rigged.
The other five 2 ft ships are the “ aveuni; Macu ta; Moala (built or Burns Philp SS) Co., for use
n Fiji waters);
toro (wrecked in
few Hebrides);
n d A’o Nieu built for Tongan iovernment and sed in that roup).
Te Matapula
as built for Gil ert & Ellice
slands Colony
Wholesale Society
>r use in the :oup, and will be Ased on Funa
futi. She probably will be in charge of Captain A. R. Peckham, first officer of the Society’s other ship, Tungara.
The Whippy firm are transferring operations to their new sheds on the Tofua St. reclamation, where their new slipway will take ships up to 120 ft.
The boatbuilders in the photo-
graph, from left to right, are Messrs J. Whippy, F. Tate. O. Wendt, O Horton, F. Robinson. W. Whippy, Captain M. Whippy, and G. Barratt (Stinson photo.)