Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1966Vol. 37, No. 4

Ships In Brief

p. 113 · Read in the full issue

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• AGENTS: B. J. Back Pty. Ltd. of Madang have been appointed agents for the Karlander New Guinea Line Ltd. shipping company.

• Three Missing: An Out

board motor boat with three men on board was reported lost on a fishing trip from Betio, Tarawa, Gilbert and Ellice Islands on February 19. A search by the vessel Moana Raoi and a Fiji Airways Heron covered the Central Gilberts area but no trace was found of the missing boat.

• NEW TRADER: A new 50 ft inter-island trading vessel, Maris Stella, arrived in the Solomons re cently. She was built in Hong Kong for the owners, Kwan Hong Pty. Ltd.

She is claimed to be the first Rolls Royce-powered inter-island trader. • REFLOATED: The 503-ton tanker Pacific Enterprise was re floated from a reef in Munda Lagoon, BSIP, on February 8, after having run aground three days earlier. Some of the vessel’s cargo was taken off in empty oil drums to aid the re floating operation.

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