SS Go Ahead
SS ''Go Ahead'' was a Twin-screw steamer, twin screw-steamer, launched on the afternoon of Saturday 20 April 1867 by T.B. Seath & Co., Seath and Connell, of Rutherglen, for the Clyde Shipping Company, with a plan to use her in New Zealand coastal trading. She had 30, or , high pressure engines, and Fire-tube boiler, tubular boilers from Campbell & Son's foundry. ''Go-a-head'' left Glasgow on 10 May and Sailing, sailed to Melbourne, arriving on 2 November. An attempt to sell her failed, so on 2 December 1867 she left Hobson's Bay with a full cargo for Westport, New Zealand, Westport (then called Buller). She had to sail for an additional 12 days to get to Buller, where she briefly landed on the North Spit. This time she was advertised by Wellington agents, Harcourts International#History, A. P. Stuart & Co, the sale notice saying she had, "a draught of 4 feet of water, will carry 1000 sheep. Highly suited for trading between this and the West Coast." The "highly suited" and "Must b ...
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Civil Ensign Of New Zealand
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