Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1958Vol. XXVIII, No. 10

Handy 150 ft Ship for G & E Colony

p. 53 · Read in the full issue

Page 5353

G & E Colony

a cargo and passenger vessel called Moana Rao, 150 ft long, now being built at Kowloon, Hongkong, for the Gilbert and Ellice Govern ment, is expected in Tarawa in Captain E. H. Ward (a former master of John Williams mission ships) and Engineer J. Florian flew to Hongkong in April to super vise final building; and 21 Gil bertese seamen will be flown there in June or July to man the new ship. She is powered by twin-screw diesels, and equipped with radar.

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