Built In Japan For New Guinea
p. 117 · Read in the full issue
These three motor ships, built by the Tohoku Dockyard at Shiogama, Tokyo, for New Guinea interests, left Shiogama on their delivery voyages to Madang on March 13. Tohoku Dockyard is a subsidiary of the Uraga Shipbuilding Yard. The ships are the “Rudolph Wahlen”, 116 tons gross, built for Mr. B. C. Ban, of Western Isles Co. Ltd., Madang; the “Kathleen”, 124 tons, built for Sealark Shipping and Engineering Pty.
Ltd., Madang; and the “Sorengana”, 116 tons, built for North West Trading Co. Pty. Ltd., Madang.
The “Rudolph Wahlen” was named after a German planter of that name, who went to New Guinea in 1895 at the age of 22, bought the North-Western Islands (N ini go, Hermits, etc.) and developed them as a coconut plantation. In 1910, he founded Hamburgische Sudsee, AG; and four years later he returned to Germany. He served in both World Wars. He is still going strong, as regular “PIM” readers know.