Seventh Vessel Built in Shanghai for Norway The str. Hervar, the seventh of a fleet built to a Norwegian order, was successfully launched from the
Shipbuilding Works, Ld., on Mon-slips of the New Engineering day afternoon, the christening ceremony being performed before a large company by Mrs. Anderson, the wife of Captain Anderson, of the owning company. Immediately after the launching, the Hervar was taken alongside the wharf, under the' sheer legs, to have her engines, boilers and auxiliary machinery placed on board.
The company then assembled in one of the godowns, where refreshments were served by Shepherd's Cafe. Mr. A. W. Burkill, asking the company to drink success to the new ship, said that she was a sister of the Dukat, and_ the seventh vessel of her class built in that yard for the same owners, Messrs. Bruusgaard, Kiosterud Ca., of Norway. He hoped in a very few weeks time to see them there again to witness the launch of a further vessel of the~same type, now under construction on the ways next to the Hervar.
The Hervar was precisely the same type of. vessel as her six predecessors, all of which, he was glad to say, had given complete satisfaction to their owners and he, therefore, expressed the hope that the yard would build many more vessels for Messrs. Bruusgaard, Kiosterud & Ca.
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