AWATEA near Tasman riband, not speeding
Publisher
The Daily Telegraph
Date22 September 1936
Object numberANMS0341[003]
NameNewspaper clipping
MediumPaper
ClassificationsEphemera
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from Patrick Moss
DescriptionArticle reads '...Hailed in Sydney as British reply to Pacific challenge the AWATEA ("Eye of the Dawn"), New Union Steamship Company of New Zealand trans-Tasman luxury liner, and third in speed in the British Empire only to QUEEN MARY and EMPRESS OF BRITAIN, completed her maiden voyage from Auckland to Sydney yesterday...' . the article includes a photograph showing 'Stewards in the galley of the new liner AWATEA, ready to take the chef's offerings to diners'.
Messageries Maritimes [Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes]
5 May 1894
