Lighters For Honiara
p. 57 · Read in the full issue
THE British freighter Eskbank having delivered the coup-de grace to Tulagi’s tottering wharf in March, thus ending overseas shipping activities there, seven cargo lighters hastily ordered from Suva, were completed by Millers, Limited, and taken back to the Solomons for use in working Honiara’s open roadstead port, by the Kurimarau, on her May voyage from Fiji. Further lighters are on order.
Cargo sheds recently constructed at Tulgai are now of little use there and will, presumably, be removed to the Honiara port area, 24 miles away, on Guadalcanal.