again!
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It’s that ship again!
The 100-ton Cook Islands trading vessel Tagua is really getting around these days.
In May she made a “light ning” dash from Rarotonga to Nassau Island and back—l,34o miles—in six days 22 hours 50 minutes to pick up a maternity case with complications and an appendicitis case.
The ship spent only two hours off the Nassau reef while a doctor, nurse and laboratory technician went ashore in a narrow reef-boat and picked up the two patients for Rarotonga.
The 85 ft Tagua is owned by Boyd and Silk of Rarotonga.
In April, the Tagua made a voyage to rarely-visited Beveridge Reef to explore its crayfish potential {PIM, June, p. 55).